This updated 2021 study explores the scholarly impact of law faculties, ranking the top third of ABA-accredited law schools. Refined by Brian Leiter, the “Scholarly Impact Score” for a law faculty is calculated from the mean and the median of total law journal citations over the past five...

This paper examines the hypothesis that the gender salary gap observed in the academic labour market is predominantly explained by the differing average characteristics of male and female academics and barriers to female promotion. Preliminary analysis reveals that the crowding of women into the...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to determine which software systems business school administrators use to support accreditation efforts and how administrators select and use these systems. This study also provides best practice suggestions from institutions using faculty data management...

Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees, more than 70 percent of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using newly collected data on the career trajectories of...

Die Governance der Arbeit im deutschen Hochschulsystem hat sich unter der Maßgabe der Verbesserung der Arbeitsbedingungen durch verschiedene Neuregulierungen in den vergangenen Jahren zum Teil erheblich verändert. Mithilfe von Expert:inneninterviews mit Personalstellen, Fachbereichen bzw....

The growth of employee benefits in academe has closely paralleled their economy-wide growth. This study estimates a complete system describing the demand for benefits and wages using panel data on nearly 1500 institutions of higher learning. The demand for benefits is quite responsive both to...

Im deutschen Sprachraum gab es Unterschiede im Umgang mit dem wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs auf der Schwelle zur Professur. In Deutschland war in der Regel ein externer Ruf nötig, in Österreich konnte man durch Pragmatisierung oder Hausruf an der eigenen Universität verbleiben und in Schweiz...