Internationalization receives top priority in nearly any university mission statement. But why? What is the value of … internationalization for a university? Is the purpose to improve a university’s ranking, or to explore new revenue sources by entering … itself. Internationalization is a powerful means to fulfill a university’s central task “Bildung of individuals” as it …

research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German … academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the … research grants. We then go on to investigate the persistence of individual productivity. The Persistence issue is of special …

Lakatos' concept of scientific research programmes (SRP), the article introduces a classification of economics in order to …

. Authors choose research papers to maximize satisfaction, while editors determine research quality to maximize journal …, increased journal competition has the potential to erode the citation gains. The equilibrium research quality is below the … publications, and decrease research quality. The results generally carry through when publishing markets tend to a monopoly …

based on our experience, perspectives and success working in a College of Business in a mid-size, public university in Texas …. However, the challenges we face -- limited resources, and working within the bureaucratic framework of a public university …

Fifteen tips are given and explained for graduates with a doctoral degree who want to become university professors in …