Showing 1 - 10 of 51
The ability of a tax authority to successfully collect taxes depends critically on both its relationship with the taxpayers and how strongly these taxpayers are committed to contributing to the common good. We present evidence on a new non-intrusive approach aimed at fostering the commitment to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565549
The ability of a tax authority to collect taxes successfully depends on both its relationship with taxpayers and how strongly these taxpayers are committed to contributing to the common good. We present field and laboratory experimental evidence on a new non-intrusive approach aimed at fostering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821355
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001606308
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001772218
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001745629
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002132163
Survival in academia depends on publications in refereed journals. Authors only get their papers accepted if they intellectually prostitute themselves by slavishly following the demands made by anonymous referees without property rights on the journals they advise. Intellectual prostitution is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014114470
Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. Such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which should be the essence of any evaluation. These quantity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133429
Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university,” and inadequate organizational forms for modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136878
Academic rankings today are the backbone of research governance, which seem to fit the aims of “new public management” on the one side and the idea of the “republic of science” on the other side. Nevertheless rankings recently came under scrutiny. We discuss advantages and disadvantages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146667