Law School Rankings, Faculty Scholarship, and Associate Deans for Faculty Research

Author(s):  
Richard Buckingham ◽  
Diane D'Angelo ◽  
Susan Vaughn
2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Evans Stake ◽  
Michael Alexeev

2021 ◽  
pp. 002224292110010
Author(s):  
Stefan Stremersch ◽  
Russell S. Winer ◽  
Nuno Camacho

Grounded in sociological agency theory, the authors study the role of the faculty research incentive system in the academic research conducted at business schools and business school health. The authors surveyed 234 marketing professors and completed 22 interviews with 14 (associate) deans and 8 external institution stakeholders. They find that research quantity contributes to the research health of the school, but not to other aspects of business school health. r-quality of research (i.e., rigor) contributes more strongly to the research health of the school than research quantity. q-quality (i.e., practical importance) of research does not contribute to the research health of the school but contributes positively to teaching health and several other dimensions of business school health. Faculty research incentives are misaligned: (1) when monitoring research faculty, the number of publications receives too much weight, while creativity, literacy, relevance, and awards receive too little weight; and (2) faculty feel that they are insufficiently compensated for their research, while (associate) deans feel they are compensated too much for their research. These incentive misalignments are largest in schools that perform the worst on research ( r- and q-) quality. The authors explore how business schools and faculty can remedy these misalignments.


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