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Research Productivity in Business Economics Table 2.3: Top-five departments by fields of research Financial Financial Markets and Organization, Accounting, Corporate Managerial Marketing Personnel, Auditing Rank Finance Accounting and Sales and Strategy and Taxation 1 2 3 4 5 Mannheim Wien Darmstadt Würzburg Saarbrücken University University TU University University Ulm Koblenz Koblenz- Bonn Paderborn University Vallendar Landau University University WHU University Karlsruhe Ilmenau TU Augsburg Paderborn Köln University University University University Dortmund Graz Jena Köln Hannover University University University University University Jena Bremen Mannheim Braunschweig Trier University University University TU University Using the departments’ web pages, 1,490 individuals can be assigned to subdisciplines. In Table 2.3 we report top-five department lists for the subdisciplines ‘Financial Markets and Corporate Finance’, ‘Managerial Accounting’, ‘Marketing and Sales’, ‘Organization, Personnel and Strategy’ and ‘Financial Accounting, Auditing and Taxation’. Initially, we identified two more subdisciplines. Yet, we exclude the field ‘Production, Cost Accounting and Industrial Management’ because we are too often unable to differentiate this field from business information systems. We also exclude the subdiscipline ‘Public Enterprise Management’ due to an insufficient number of observations. Only four departments, the departments of the universities of Jena, Mannheim, Köln and Paderborn, make it into the top-five lists in two subdisciplines. No department can claim more than two top rankings. This observation suggests that business economics research is rather specialized. Or phrased in terms of current German higher education politics, centers of excellence are not concentrated in a small number of locations. Table 2.8 in the Appendix provides a ranking of departments such that research output is assigned to the individual’s original training department - defined either as the department that granted the researcher’s doctor’s degree or venia legendi - instead of the department 27
Research Productivity in Business Economics that the researcher is currently affiliated with. Unfortunately, we are unable to obtain information concerning the training department for all individuals in our sample. We only include departments in which at least four professors received their training. Professors who received their doctor’s degree from the Humboldt University in Berlin, the University of Bonn and the University of Hagen are most productive (on average). The Technical University of Vienna, the University of Bonn and the University of Passau awarded the venia legendi to the most productive researchers in our sample. The University of Bonn, which is the top university in terms of current department productivity, also belongs to the most successful training institutions. The other leading training departments do not stand out as high-productivity departments in Table 2.7 (b). Generally, rank correlations between the rankings based on current affiliations and training institutions are moderate. The rank correlation between the productivity ranking reported in Table 2.7 (b) and the productivity rankings in Table 2.8 is slightly higher when focusing on the doctor’s degree 0.5234 than on the venia legendi 0.4799. According to Davies et al. (2008) and Kocher and Sutter (2001), the concentration of research output across universities is higher if the research output is assigned to the department that granted the researcher’s doctor’s degrees than if it assigned to the researcher’s current affiliation. The same holds true for our sample. However, the normalized Herfindahl index is still very low: the respective values are 0.0220 (doctorate) and 0.1835 (venia legendi). Interpreting this information with due care suggests that the market for junior business economists is not very concentrated in the German-speaking area. We can- not single out a small group of departments that train the most productive individuals. Thus, it does not appear to be a promising strategy to concentrate recruiting on a few prestigious departments when hiring new faculty. 2.4 Institutional Effects In this section we investigate whether institutional characteristics affect the research productivity of entire departments. Research productivity is measured as the average of the productivities of department members including junior staff. Table 2.4 reports the results of a Tobit regression analysis. We present results for two subsamples. Because the variable ‘number of students’ is not available for Austrian departments, only German and Swiss 28
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