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Type	Working Paper
Scope	Discipline-based scholarship
Title	Research Governance in Academia: are there Alternatives to Academic Rankings?
Organization Unit	Foundations of Business Administration and Theories of the Firm (Andreas Scherer)
Authors	Margit Osterloh Bruno Frey
Language	English
Institution	University of Zurich
Series Name	Working paper series / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics
Number	No. 423
ISSN	1424-0459
Date	2009
Abstract Text	Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take explicitly or implicitly agency theory as a theoretical basis. The emerging psychological economics opens a new perspective. As scholarly research is a mainly curiosity driven endeavor, we include intrinsic motivation andnsupportive feedback by the peers as important determinants of scholarly behavior. We discuss whether a stronger emphasis on selection and socialization offers an alternative to the present regime of academic rankings.
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