TY - JOUR
T1 - An evaluation of research performance in management of 168 Taiwan universities
AU - Kao, Chiang
AU - Pao, Hwei Lan
N1 - Funding Information:
As the major concerns of the university are teaching and research, this paper describes the study of a nation-wide evaluation of research performance in management for 168 universities in Taiwan. In addition to the popular indicators of SCI/SSCI journal publications and citations, the number of projects funded by the National Science Council of Taiwan was used to account for the special characteristic of the field of management. The evaluation was based on individual professors rather than management programs, so that all types of universities, including those without management departments, could be compared. Performances of each university in those three indicators were aggregated by a set of a posteriori weights which were most favourable to all universities in calculating the aggregated score. The results show that public universities, in general, performed better than private ones. Universities with specific missions had comparable performance to general comprehensive ones. Analyses from a set of a priori weights solicited from experts showed that the results of this study are robust to the indicators selected and the weights used.
Funding Information:
For the 6102 projects, 4971, or 81.47%, are from the top 30 universities. Fourteen universities of the top 30 and two of the top ten are private. The performance of private universities in this indicator is similar to those of the two preceding indicators. Several universities which had good performance in preceding indicators, for example, National Taipei University of Technology, National Changhua University of Education, National Defense University, Aletheia University, National Tsing Hua University, and National Chin-Yih University of Technology, are not among the top 30 in this indicator. The reason is because many professors in these universities are affiliated with the industrial engineering department. When they apply for the NSC grant, they sometimes switch to the field of industrial engineering, rather than staying in the field of management all the time. Another point to be noted is that the three military-type universities, National Defense University, National Chinese Military Academy, and National Police University, are not among the top 30. One reason is because professors in these universities can apply for special funding from the Ministry of Defense. This makes professors in these universities reluctant to apply for grants from the NSC.
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The manuscript was completed when the corresponding author was a Visiting Scholar at INSEAD, France. The support from INSEAD is grateful.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - As the major concerns of the university are teaching and research, this paper describes the study of a nation-wide evaluation of research performance in management for 168 universities in Taiwan. In addition to the popular indicators of SCI/SSCI journal publications and citations, the number of projects funded by the National Science Council of Taiwan was used to account for the special characteristic of the field of management. The evaluation was based on individual professors rather than management programs, so that all types of universities, including those without management departments, could be compared. Performances of each university in those three indicators were aggregated by a set of a posteriori weights which were most favourable to all universities in calculating the aggregated score. The results show that public universities, in general, performed better than private ones. Universities with specific missions had comparable performance to general comprehensive ones. Analyses from a set of a priori weights solicited from experts showed that the results of this study are robust to the indicators selected and the weights used.
AB - As the major concerns of the university are teaching and research, this paper describes the study of a nation-wide evaluation of research performance in management for 168 universities in Taiwan. In addition to the popular indicators of SCI/SSCI journal publications and citations, the number of projects funded by the National Science Council of Taiwan was used to account for the special characteristic of the field of management. The evaluation was based on individual professors rather than management programs, so that all types of universities, including those without management departments, could be compared. Performances of each university in those three indicators were aggregated by a set of a posteriori weights which were most favourable to all universities in calculating the aggregated score. The results show that public universities, in general, performed better than private ones. Universities with specific missions had comparable performance to general comprehensive ones. Analyses from a set of a priori weights solicited from experts showed that the results of this study are robust to the indicators selected and the weights used.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11192-007-1906-6
DO - 10.1007/s11192-007-1906-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:58549092959
SN - 0138-9130
VL - 78
SP - 261
EP - 277
JO - Scientometrics
JF - Scientometrics
IS - 2
ER -