Researchers’ participation in standardisation: a case study from a public research institute in Germany

Academic Engagement: A Review of the Literature 2011-2019

“…A third set of articles explores the interdependencies between academic engagement and other activities in an academic's portfolio, particularly research. Academics with more publications are more likely to engage (Aschhoff and Grimpe, 2014;D'Este et al, 2019;Ding and Choi, 2011;Tartari et al, 2014) but the effect of academics' research quality (usually measured by the quality of their publications) is more ambiguous (Ding and Choi, 2011;Tartari et al, 2014;Zi and Blind, 2015). As for further research and portfolio-related determinants, academics' tendency to publish in applied journals has a positive effect on their propensity to collaborate with industry in the Italian context (Tartari and Breschi, 2012).…”

The Impact of International Management Standards on Academic Research

“…Standards are developed by and for practitioners, in this way, they could have an impact on applied sciences. Thereupon, Zi and Blind [4] find that researchers involved in formal standardization tend to publish less often in journals with a high scientific reputation but instead more often in applied and industry-related journals. The four international management standards investigated within this research not only influence an organization as a whole including all kinds of departments, but they are also not limited to a certain sector.…”

“…Standards are beneficial for different reasons: they facilitate the market access, support the diffusion of technologies [1], enhance the flexibility of management [2], and they can foster different forms of innovation [3]. Standards provide comprehensive scientific and practical knowledge for everyone at low cost [4]. Therefore, standards possess two essential functions within an innovation system.…”

“…In addition, other reviews show that the main objectives of current studies regarding international management standards are: Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility; strategy, performance and innovation; motivations, benefits and difficulties for implementation as well as maturity-based thinking [23,24]. With regard to interdependencies of standardization and scientific publishing Zi and Blind [4] analyzed how the participation in standardization affects researchers' publication performance. Raven and Blind [25] studied the citation behavior of articles referenced by standards developed by the BioSharing standardization consortia.…”

Exploring the Relationship between Research and BIM Standardization: A Systematic Mapping of Early Studies on the IFC Standard (1997–2007)

“…Most of the research in this domain focuses on exploring ways to incorporate research into the standardization processes of standard-setting organizations [11] and, vice versa, ways of incorporating standards, either established or still under development, into research initiatives [12]. One of the rare academic studies that directly relates to researcher participation in standardization asked why researchers participate in standardization activities, a very important line of research that would warrant more attention in future research [13]. Based on an in-depth case study of one research institution, Zi and Blind discovered a negative relationship between productivity-in terms of publishing high-quality scientific publications-and participation in standardization committees, and they found a positive relationship between productivity-in terms of publishing technical and industry-oriented publications-and standardization activities.…”