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Type	Working Paper
Scope	Discipline-based scholarship
Title	Evaluations: Hidden Costs, Questionable Benefits, and Superior Alternatives
Organization Unit	Foundations of Business Administration and Theories of the Firm (Andreas Scherer)
Authors	Bruno Frey Margit Osterloh
Language	English
Institution	University of Zurich
Series Name	Working paper series / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics
Number	No. 302
ISSN	1424-0459
Date	2006
Abstract Text	Research evaluation is praised as the symbol of modern quality management. We claim firstly, performance evaluations in research have higher costs than normally assumed, because the evaluated persons and institutions systematically change their behavior andndevelop counter strategies. Moreover, intrinsic work motivation is crowded out and undesired lock-in effects take place. Secondly, the benefits of performance evaluations are questionable.nEvaluations provide too little information relevant for decision-making. In addition, they losenimportance due to new forms of scientific cooperation on the internet. Thirdly, there existnsuperior alternatives. They consist in careful selection and supportive process coaching – and then leave individuals and research institutions to direct themselves.
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