The rhetoric and practice of business research collaboration among High North universities
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Dybtsyna, E., Hersinger, A. & Moddleton, A. (2019). The rhetoric and practice of business research collaboration among High North universities. Barents Studies, 6(1), 87-104.Abstract
International research collaboration and business development in the High North
have become hot topics at the governmental policy level in many countries. However,
despite prior research on cooperation between Nordic universities, there is a dearth
of research specifically addressing the practice of High North research collaboration
in business studies. We ask the following research question: how are the prospects for
business research collaboration among High North universities portrayed in national
policy documents and to what extent is business research in the High North collaborative
in practice? We address this question by analyses and comparisons of publicly
available governmental Arctic strategies and bibliographic data on joint publications
between researchers from High North universities in Finland, Norway, and Sweden.
The empirical results reveal diverging yet far-reaching national aspirations at the
policy level which do not match the rather modest research collaboration in practice
evidenced by our bibliographic data. Our conclusions suggest that the rhetoric of
High North business research collaboration and the practice of actual collaboration
among High North universities are decoupled from each other. We theorize about
explanatory circumstances behind decoupling in the area of research collaboration
and provide suggestions for further research.