Implications of managerial control on performance of Dutch academic (bio)medical and health research groups

Research Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1616-1629

  van der Weijden, Inge ^a,b   de Gilder, Dick ^b   Groenewegen, Peter ^b   Klasen, Eduard ^c  

^a Rathenau Institute KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

(Bio)medical and health research; Academic research; Managerial control; Performance; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

FOOD PROCESSING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

(BIO)MEDICAL AND HEALTH RESEARCH; ACADEMIC RESEARCH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEALTH RESEARCH; MANAGERIAL CONTROL; MULTIVARIATE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PAPER ADDRESSES; PERFORMANCE; QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES; RESEARCH MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH PERFORMANCES; RESEARCH POLICIES;

RESEARCH;

EID: 50649084757     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2008.06.007     Document Type: Article

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