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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Career Incentives and "Publish or Perish" in German and US Universities
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Uschi Backes-Gellner
  • A Schlinghoff
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title European Education
Publisher M.E. Sharpe
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 1056-4934
Volume 42
Number 3
Page Range 26 - 52
Date 2010
Abstract Text 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
Digital Object Identifier 10.2753/EUE1056-4934420302
Other Identification Number merlin-id:731
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