The imprecise science of measuring scholarly performance: utilising broad quality categories for an assessment of business and management journals

In a growing number of countries, government-appointed assessment panels develop ranks on the basis of the quality of scholarly outputs to apportion budgets in recognition of evaluated performance and to justify public funds for future R&D activities. When business and management journals are be...

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Main Author: Lange, Thomas
Format: Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40386
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description In a growing number of countries, government-appointed assessment panels develop ranks on the basis of the quality of scholarly outputs to apportion budgets in recognition of evaluated performance and to justify public funds for future R&D activities. When business and management journals are being grouped in broad quality categories, a recent study has noted that this procedure was placing the same journals in essentially the same categories. Drawing on journal quality categorizations by several German- and English-speaking business departments and academic associations, the author performs nonparametric tests and correlations to analyze whether this claim can be substantiated. In particular, he examines the ability of broad quality categorizations to add value to governmental, administrative, and academic decision making by withstanding the criticism traditionally levied at research quality assessments.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-403862017-09-13T13:39:37Z The imprecise science of measuring scholarly performance: utilising broad quality categories for an assessment of business and management journals Lange, Thomas government policy compatibleresearch quality multisubject research in business and management tenure and promotion practices nonparametric methods In a growing number of countries, government-appointed assessment panels develop ranks on the basis of the quality of scholarly outputs to apportion budgets in recognition of evaluated performance and to justify public funds for future R&D activities. When business and management journals are being grouped in broad quality categories, a recent study has noted that this procedure was placing the same journals in essentially the same categories. Drawing on journal quality categorizations by several German- and English-speaking business departments and academic associations, the author performs nonparametric tests and correlations to analyze whether this claim can be substantiated. In particular, he examines the ability of broad quality categorizations to add value to governmental, administrative, and academic decision making by withstanding the criticism traditionally levied at research quality assessments. 2006 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40386 10.1177/0193841X05284088 Sage Publications restricted
spellingShingle government policy
compatibleresearch quality
multisubject research in business and management
tenure and promotion practices
nonparametric methods
Lange, Thomas
The imprecise science of measuring scholarly performance: utilising broad quality categories for an assessment of business and management journals
title The imprecise science of measuring scholarly performance: utilising broad quality categories for an assessment of business and management journals
title_full The imprecise science of measuring scholarly performance: utilising broad quality categories for an assessment of business and management journals
title_fullStr The imprecise science of measuring scholarly performance: utilising broad quality categories for an assessment of business and management journals
title_full_unstemmed The imprecise science of measuring scholarly performance: utilising broad quality categories for an assessment of business and management journals
title_short The imprecise science of measuring scholarly performance: utilising broad quality categories for an assessment of business and management journals
title_sort imprecise science of measuring scholarly performance: utilising broad quality categories for an assessment of business and management journals
topic government policy
compatibleresearch quality
multisubject research in business and management
tenure and promotion practices
nonparametric methods
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40386