“How institutions can influence knowledge”

research is conducted and topics circulate and arguments are evaluated and knowledge is disseminated and curricula include the topics and topics are presented from particular perspectives.

Exactly.

A more complete model would be:

Research priorities

What questions researchers investigate

Publication

Which findings and arguments become publicly available

Peer evaluation

Which arguments are regarded as acceptable, rigorous, or significant

Citation and professional recognition

Which works become visible and influential

Teaching

Which works and interpretations enter courses and textbooks

Public dissemination

Which interpretations reach broader audiences

Accumulated scholarly understanding

What later scholars encounter as the established literature.

But there is an important qualification:

This is not necessarily a one-way conspiracy or centralized process.

Different institutions can disagree.

Researchers can challenge dominant interpretations.

New evidence can overturn established conclusions.

Different countries can produce competing historiographies.

So “institutional influence” does not mean:

“Institutions completely control knowledge.”

It means:

Institutions can shape the opportunities, incentives, visibility, standards and channels through which knowledge is produced and received.