Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/11159/669999
Book title: 
The Emerald Handbook of Research Management and Administration Around the World
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ISBN: 
978-1-80382-701-8
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Book Part
Place of Publication and Publisher: 
Emerald Publishing Limited
Year of Publication: 
2023
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Abstract: 
The case of Africa is important in understanding the growth of research management as a profession. Africa has rapidly increased its research output in recent years, and its institutions are increasingly in demand as research partners. Yet research management structures have developed from a very low base, and need not be confined by past practice. Through the Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association (SARIMA), it has been represented since the origins of International Networks of Research Management Societies (INORMS). Several external donors have sought to help build research management structures on the continent, and the success (or otherwise) of these initiatives can tell us much about the potential for common research management structures globally. This chapter does not provide a comprehensive account of progress over the past two decades, or a complete list of relevant initiatives. Rather, it reflects on whether international assistance and collaboration have made a meaningful contribution to the progress that has been made, and its strengths and limitations. It considers how far growth would have happened regardless of funder intervention, or indeed whether international partners have inhibited progress by prioritising their own norms and priorities. It asks uncomfortable questions for funders about the way in which they plan and evaluate their work.
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Language: 
English (eng)
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In: The Emerald Handbook of Research Management and Administration Around the World (2023). Emerald Publishing Limited, S. 17 - 26.
https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-701-820231003.
doi:10.1108/978-1-80382-701-820231003.

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