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Assessing the Institutional Legitimacy of Research and Technology Organisations in South Korea: A Content Analysis Approach (2011)

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Societies; institutions; academies Research Research and development (R&D) Technology Technology and industry Technology and government Public policy 20th century, late 21st century South Korea

This article examines the institutional legitimacy of public Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) in South Korea (Korea hereafter), a catching-up economy. It reports the results of content analysis carried out on 200 articles, columns and interviews appearing in major Korean newspapers from February 1998 to October 2008 to assess the degree of institutional legitimacy that Korean RTOs enjoy. The results indicate that these RTOs have not achieved sufficient institutional legitimacy to maintain organisational sustainability. Not only have the governance and management systems of these organisations changed following each election of a new government in Korea, but the results also reveal discrepancies in opinions of RTOs amongst government policymakers, RTO researchers/managers, and opinion leaders in the country's science and technology societies. Periodic policy direction inconsistencies are also identified. Taken together, these factors have hindered the institutional legitimacy of Korean RTOs. Drawing on the results of this analysis, this article suggests new policy directions for increasing the institutional legitimacy of RTOs in catching up and developing countries

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Authors & Contributors
Coeckelbergh, Mark
Brice Laurent
Chan-Yuan Wong
Clément Gasull
Sangook Park
Liliana Doganova
Journals
Public Understanding of Science
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Science Technology and Society
Science as Culture
Publishers
MIT Press
Duke University Press
C. H. Beck
Concepts
Technology and government
Technology and industry
Public policy
Research and development (R&D)
Technology
Research
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
Places
South Korea
United States
Great Britain
Singapore
Asia
Taiwan
Institutions
Industrial Technology Research Institute- ITRI
Korea Institute of Science and Technology - KIST
Eli Lilly and Company
Rossiiskaia Akademiia Nauk
Royal Society of London
International Business Machines Corporation
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