Purpose

In a context of growing policy pressures to increase the societal impact of Higher Education Institutions (HEI), open access to research data has gained increased significance, in spite of the limited availability of standard procedures and protocols, particularly in the engineering disciplines. In this article, we explore how engineering researchers' engagement with such external environment pressures impacts the conventional dimensions of engineering research work, and how engineering researchers within engineering HEI resolve potential tensions and make sense of their research data sharing practices.

Design/methodology/approach

We use an institutional logics theoretical perspective to qualitatively examine research data sharing behaviours of researchers in Norway and the UK as leading engineering research centres, through the use of policy analysis and narrative interviews.

Findings

The findings indicate that research data sharing behaviours are heavily mediated by institutional rules and rationalities that inform researchers' attitudes, but the logics that prize openness and sharing co-exist with logics that favour control and self-interest.

Originality/value

Our findings suggest that logics-specific variations in engineering researchers' identities and goals are of paramount importance to policymakers, research funders and academic leaders striving to support HEI in their efforts to augment the societal impact of research.

中文翻译：

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挪威和英国的工程研究人员的研究数据共享行为：揭示Janus的双重面孔

目的

在不断增加的政策压力以提高高等教育机构（HEI）的社会影响的背景下，尽管标准程序和协议（尤其是工程学科）的可用性有限，但开放获取研究数据的重要性日益提高。在本文中，我们探讨了工程研究人员如何应对此类外部环境压力，以及它们如何影响工程研究工作的常规范围，以及工程HEI中的工程研究人员如何解决潜在的压力并了解他们的研究数据共享做法。

设计/方法/方法

我们使用制度逻辑理论的观点，通过政策分析和叙述性访谈，对作为领先工程研究中心的挪威和英国研究人员的研究数据共享行为进行定性研究。

发现

研究结果表明，研究数据共享行为在很大程度上受到告知研究人员态度的制度规则和合理性的调节，但奖励开放性和共享性的逻辑与有利于控制和自我利益的逻辑并存。

创意/价值

我们的发现表明，工程研究人员的身份和目标的特定于逻辑的变化对于努力支持HEI增强研究的社会影响的政策制定者，研究资助者和学术领袖至关重要。