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Organizational support for researchers' performance in different scientific fields

The idea of this study is to establish whether theoretically expected disciplinary differences in organizational support for high publication output will be corroborated by an empirical comparison of different scientific fields. The theoretical framework of the study relies on the main theses of the organizational and cultural theories of science about the social and intellectual (cognitive) differentiation of the scientific fields (Whitley, 1984 ; Fuchs, 1992, Becher & Trowler, 2001). Consequently, the differences of the social and intellectual organization of sciences may be reflected in different organizational support for innovative researchers’ performance and output in the individual fields/areas. An empirical analysis is based on a questionnaire survey of a sample of 915 Croatian researchers from all scientific areas. The questionnaire was constructed to gather data on respondents’ relevant social and professional characteristics, their publication productivity (published output), and their perceptions of organizational support for innovation measured by the use of OSIQ developed by Pirola-Merlo (2000). The 21 item OSIQ (Organizational Support for Innovation Questionnaire) consists of three scales and the corresponding underlying constructs: organizational encouragement of innovation, access to resources and empowerment. The aim of this analysis is to explore and to compare the organizational factors that are important for high output in each scientific area/field – natural sciences, (bio) technical sciences, biomedical sciences, as well as social sciences and the humanities. In accordance with TSO (theory of scientific organizations), different contributions of organizational support factors to the innovative performance (output) are expected in the observed scientific areas (fields).

organizational support; organizational encouragement; autonomy; access to experts and knowledge; scientific fields

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