Institutional Struggles for Recognition in the Academic Field: The Case of University Departments in German Chemistry |
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| Authors: | Richard Münch Christian Baier |
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| Institution: | (1) University of Bamberg, Lichtenhaidestr. 11, 96045 Bamberg, Germany |
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| Abstract: | This paper demonstrates how the application of New Public Management (NPM) and the accompanying rise of academic capitalism
in allocating research funds in the German academic field have interacted with a change from federal pluralism to a more stratified
system of universities and departments. From this change, a tendency to build cartel-like structures of allocating symbolic
capital resulting in oligopolistic structures of appropriating research funds has emerged. This macro level structure is complemented
by the strengthening of the traditional oligarchic structures of research, carried out by an increasing number of assistants
under the direction of a professor on the meso level. The outcome of this institutional setting is a significant gap between
the appropriation of research funds according to the allocation of symbolic capital and the production of knowledge in publications.
The application of NPM therefore needs to be explained more as a result of the normative pressure of a globally established
model of “rational” administration, and less as a result of its functional effectiveness. This is demonstrated by an empirical
analysis with simple and multiple regressions using data on the allocation of research grants and publication records of German
chemistry departments. |
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