Can anyone point me to peer-reviewed studies of the rise of university administration and its effects on: 1) research productivity in general and 2) productivity of postdocs and early career researchers? Based on my own experiences and anecdotal evidence from my colleagues, I am inclined to think that the adoption of the business model and the subsequent increase in bureaucratic hurdles has only negative impacts. My efforts to locate peer-reviewed studies on this subject haven't turned up much but I am probably using the wrong search terms.
Bureaucracy is a real brake on scientific progress.
First, the money spent on maintaining the bureaucracy often exceeds the cost of scientific research. The number of bureaucratic employees is often excessive. To justify their salaries, they constantly invent new documents that supposedly regulate the scientific process. The scientist has to spend a lot of time servicing these papers.
Secondly, bureaucrats from science are usually people who have not written a single article themselves. Therefore, they do not understand how the scientific process works. Because of this, they come up with mechanisms that they think should improve the conditions for scientific work. But in fact, they are just an extra link, which often terribly interferes with scientists. For Russia, bureaucracy is a terrible disaster (and not only in science).
There are still "third" and" fourth", but the first two reasons are enough.
Daniel, tell me please why there was such a question?
The bureaucracy in a university has direct impact on research culture of university because of national and international accreditation processes that expect that university administration promote and practice highest standards of research culture in their universities but also collaborate with others in similar location or even distant regions.
My following paper discuss it in the Pakistani context.
http://kspjournals.org/index.php/TER/article/view/1429
it depends upon the style and functioning of government/s is/are concerned. normally in a democracy bureaucracy do not directly intervene in the research work, but, well, sometimes it has been observed that in some social aspects, if any research work or article violates the social integrity of a nations then they intervene. generally, good practices are followed in good governance.
You need more time to fill in administrative forms than you can spend on your research creativity and productivity, i.e. bureaucracy and legitimatory procedures put a brake on scientific creativity.
In this sense, they serve as a means to control thinking and not as part of rationalization procedures.
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