Coccia, M, Does bureaucracy affect research performance of public research organizations? (Article, English) PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ISSI, VOLS I AND II. 2007. p.216-225

[Eugene Garfield]

Email: m.coccia at ceris.cnr.it

Author(s): Coccia, M (Coccia, Mario) 

Title: Does bureaucracy affect research performance of public research 
organizations? 

Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF 

Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE 
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 
216-225, 2007 

Language: English 
Document Type: Article 

Cited Reference Count: 32 

Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International-
Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics 

Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 

Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN 

Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & 
Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, 
Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ 
Carlos III Madrid 

Author Keywords: bureaucracy; efficiency; research laboratory; research 
performance; organization rules 

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between 
bureaucracy and research performance within Public Research Bodies. The 
research methodology is applied on a sample of 100 interviewed belonging 
to 11 institutes of National Research Council of Italy. The main finding 
is that within Italian Public Research Council there is organization 
bureaucracy that reduces performance and efficiency of institutes. In 
fact, institutes have two organizational behaviours: high bureaucracy-low 
performance and low bureaucracy-high performance. 

Addresses: CERIS CNR, Inst Econ Res Firm & Growth, Natl Res Council, 
Turin, I-10024 Italy. 

Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI 
Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 
2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM 

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