Four Essays on University Economics - KOPS - Universität Konstanz
Four Essays on University Economics - KOPS - Universität Konstanz
Four Essays on University Economics - KOPS - Universität Konstanz
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Research Productivity in Business Ec<strong>on</strong>omics<br />
Table 2.3: Top-five departments by fields of research<br />
Financial Financial<br />
Markets and Organizati<strong>on</strong>, Accounting,<br />
Corporate Managerial Marketing Pers<strong>on</strong>nel, Auditing<br />
Rank Finance Accounting and Sales and Strategy and Taxati<strong>on</strong><br />
1<br />
2<br />
3<br />
4<br />
5<br />
Mannheim Wien Darmstadt Würzburg Saarbrücken<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>University</strong> TU <strong>University</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
Ulm Koblenz Koblenz- B<strong>on</strong>n Paderborn<br />
<strong>University</strong> Vallendar Landau <strong>University</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
WHU <strong>University</strong><br />
Karlsruhe Ilmenau TU Augsburg Paderborn Köln<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
Dortmund Graz Jena Köln Hannover<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
Jena Bremen Mannheim Braunschweig Trier<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>University</strong> TU <strong>University</strong><br />
Using the departments’ web pages, 1,490 individuals can be assigned to subdisciplines.<br />
In Table 2.3 we report top-five department lists for the subdisciplines ‘Financial Markets<br />
and Corporate Finance’, ‘Managerial Accounting’, ‘Marketing and Sales’, ‘Organizati<strong>on</strong>,<br />
Pers<strong>on</strong>nel and Strategy’ and ‘Financial Accounting, Auditing and Taxati<strong>on</strong>’. Initially, we<br />
identified two more subdisciplines. Yet, we exclude the field ‘Producti<strong>on</strong>, Cost Accounting<br />
and Industrial Management’ because we are too often unable to differentiate this field<br />
from business informati<strong>on</strong> systems. We also exclude the subdiscipline ‘Public Enterprise<br />
Management’ due to an insufficient number of observati<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
Only four departments, the departments of the universities of Jena, Mannheim, Köln<br />
and Paderborn, make it into the top-five lists in two subdisciplines. No department can<br />
claim more than two top rankings. This observati<strong>on</strong> suggests that business ec<strong>on</strong>omics<br />
research is rather specialized. Or phrased in terms of current German higher educati<strong>on</strong><br />
politics, centers of excellence are not c<strong>on</strong>centrated in a small number of locati<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
Table 2.8 in the Appendix provides a ranking of departments such that research output is<br />
assigned to the individual’s original training department - defined either as the department<br />
that granted the researcher’s doctor’s degree or venia legendi - instead of the department<br />
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