Commitment and liminal interstice under the effect of commercial logic in the university researcher
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Knowledge transfer, science and research administration, organizational change, organization studiesAbstract
This article places its interest in proposing a reinterpretation of some aspects of knowledge transfer from the university academic. The identity ambivalence of the entrepreneurial researcher who participates in the transfer of knowledge in a Mexican public university is analyzed. The methodology that supports the results was supported from a qualitative perspective. The discursive expressions of researchers were documented, obtained through semi-directed interviews, complemented with documentary analysis and material collected through indirect observation at a state university in the center of Mexico. The central discussion emphasizes the existence of fragmented and ambiguous processes that, in a Hispanic American context, configure an identity gap that creates a liminal space. The main finding of the research consisted of the identification of different institutional logics that converge in the university academic, generating a process of identity ambiguity, a source of deep individual and collective tensions.
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