Business School Prestige - Research versus Teaching

Good research and bad teaching ? A business school tale

The paper presents a simultaneous differential game between rich and poor Business Schools [BS] that yields equilibrium in which either type of BS may end up with bad teaching and good research, without resorting on informational problems. The necessary condition for this is that the BS’s impatience is smaller than the growth rate of research, which may arise as a result of school’s lack of vis...

Prestige Versus

How closely does stature (reputation) correspond to objective measures of actual performance? In the following article, reprinted from Social Science Quarterly, 1 James A. Christenson, Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, and Lee Sigelman, now dean. Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, compare impact-factor data from the Social Science...

Prestige Antibodies® in Breast Cancer Research

Unintelligible Management Research and Academic Prestige

Modest support was found for the "Dr. Fox Phenomenon": Management scientists gain prestige by unintelligible writing. A positive correlation (+0.7) was found between the prestige of 10 management journals and their "fog indices" (reading difficulty). Furthermore, 32 faculty members were asked to rate the prestige of four passages from management journals. The content of the passages was held co...

Research on Effective Teaching in Elementary School Physical Education