This paper aims to critically assess the impact of public university commercialisation on research engagement and practice relevance. Recent decades have seen dramatic changes in university environments, identities and missions, as well as in government and private sector funding and involvement. As increasingly commercialised and corporatised organisations, universities have increasingly mimicked private sector hierarchical organisation structures, professionally managed and subject to performance management via proliferating management control systems. From accumulated prior research, this paper finds university research now primarily conducted for the private rather than public good, researchers being subject to and tailoring their endeavors to conform with proliferating metrics focused university management control systems. External engagement appears as a university impression management strategy, while internally, researchers are still compelled to pursue a contradictory focus on high-status self-referential journal publication venues. This contradictory environment is found to have produced an increasing distance between university research and professional practice and between research and professional communities.

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商业化高等教育世界中公立大学研究参与的矛盾

本文旨在批判性评估公立大学商业化对研究参与和实践相关性的影响。近几十年来，大学环境、身份和使命以及政府和私营部门的资助和参与都发生了巨大变化。随着组织日益商业化和公司化，大学越来越多地模仿私营部门的分层组织结构，进行专业管理，并通过激增的管理控制系统进行绩效管理。从之前积累的研究来看，本文发现大学研究现在主要是为了私人利益而不是公共利益，研究人员受到并调整他们的努力以符合以激增的指标为中心的大学管理控制系统。外部参与似乎是一种大学印象管理策略，而在内部，研究人员仍然被迫对地位较高的自我引用期刊出版场所进行矛盾的关注。人们发现，这种矛盾的环境导致大学研究与专业实践之间以及研究与专业社区之间的距离越来越大。