Seit dem Strukturwandel des deutschen Forschungssystems in den 1980er Jahren ist eine Verstärkung wettbewerblicher Elemente in der Forschungsfinanzierung zu beobachten; seit den 1990er Jahren kommen Evaluationen und öffentliche Leistungsvergleiche hinzu. Die institutionellen Evaluationen haben...

This study investigates the contagious nature of tax avoidance by examining how narratives affect tax avoiding behavior. We adapt the idea of narrative economics indicating that individuals' actions are stimulated by stories that spread within a society. We employ two types of infection models...

Knapp über 100 Hochschulen bieten in Europa für Masterstudierende und Promovierende in den Fächern Volkswirtschaftslehre, Psychologie und Politikwissenschaft herausragend forschungsstarke Fachbereiche und internationale Orientierung; sie gehören zur "Excellence Group" des CHE...

The CHE Centre for Higher Education Development has designed an "ExcellenceRanking", a ranking of a selected group of European Universities. The CHE applied a two-step approach for analysis. First, all European departments in the surveyed fields were compared by a few general indicators. Second,...

As in other societal realms also in research, science, and development governments and parliaments increasingly have to legitimize their actions and want to base their future activities on informed decisions. Consequently, performance measures, benchmarking, comparative analysis, "foresight...

This study investigates the contagious nature of tax avoidance by examining how narratives affect tax avoiding behavior. We adapt the idea of narrative economics indicating that individuals' actions are stimulated by stories that spread within a society. We employ two types of infection models...

As in other societal realms also in research, science, and development governments and parliaments increasingly have to legitimize their actions and want to base their future activities on informed decisions. Consequently, performance measures, benchmarking, comparative analysis, “foresight...

As in other societal realms also in research, science, and development governments and parliaments increasingly have to legitimize their actions and want to base their future activities on informed decisions. Consequently, performance measures, benchmarking, comparative analysis, “foresight...