Quantitative Evaluation of German Research Output in Business Administration: 1992-2001

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The study presents a quantitative analysis of publications of business scholars and practitioners in six major German-speaking journals over the period from 1992 to 2001. The measure of research output is used as an indicator of research performance of scholars and institutions. The present analysis replicates and extends a previous study conducted ten years ago. Results suggest that the share of full professors and practitioners who contribute to the major journals has decreased while the share of junior academics has increased. As a common feature of all journals included in the study their international exposure is low. The ranking of business schools has not changed very much compared to the time period of the previous study.

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Quantitative Evaluation of German Research Output in Business Administration: 1992-2001

Evaluation of Research Output as a Core Element of University Controlling

During the last decades in the German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) there have been strong and differentiated efforts to evaluate the performance of universities and their units (Daniel 1988a, p. 93, Daniel 2000, p. 2). Although there are some concerns against such efforts performance evaluations tend to be useful since university research is primarily publicly funded, and universities are embedded in an environment which follows market-oriented principles. Such evaluations are caused by the fact that in the 90s the resources available to the academic system have declined significantly. The academic sector has to spend limited resources extremely effectively. With respect to the German-speaking countries it can be argued that these countries belong to the knowledge-based societies which are highly dependent upon the knowledge created in their academic institutions (Campbell 2000, p. 7).

Hence it does not come as a surprise that performance evaluations referring to the academic sector have been conducted by numerous institutions. Among others special institutions such as evaluation commissions, professional evaluation agencies, but also (business) magazines, students, and peers have become engaged in this field. Likewise the spectrum of the addressees of such studies shows a similar variety: Business firms want to identify those educational institutions which offer the best candidates for junior management positions, politicians strive for an efficient assignment of the scarce resources, high school graduates seek for transparency with respect to the qu...

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