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Career Incentives and 'Publish or Perish' in German and U.S. Universities
- Source :
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European Education . Fall 2010 42(3):26-52. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Increasingly, faculty members are rewarded financially for prestige-maximizing publications. As a result, the balance between publishing and other activities such as teaching or public service may collapse, as argued by Leisyte, Enders, and de Boer (2009). In our paper, we focus on career-related rewards and study their impact on publication productivity to see whether economic incentives do indeed affect faculty behavior, as measured empirically. We compare economic incentives resulting from two different career systems, namely those within the German and the U.S. university systems. We derive three hypotheses regarding expected publication patterns and test them by comparing the lifetime publication patterns of German and U.S. business and economics faculty members. (Contains 5 tables, 1 figure and 28 notes.)
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1056-4934
- Volume :
- 42
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- European Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ898546
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Evaluative
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934420302