The Downside of Relying on Research Outputs to Assess Business Faculty Performance
- 21 May 2012
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Management Education
- Vol. 36 (4), 495-502
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1052562912447073
Abstract
This commentary presents an Australian perspective on Balkin and Mello’s “Facilitating and Creating Synergies between Teaching and Research: The Role of the Academic Administrator.” It addresses one particularly important aspect of the separation of teaching and research in business schools; namely, the increasing dominance of discipline-based research output measures in overall business faculty performance, coupled with a reliance on journal rankings as de facto quality measures for research output. Some possible alternate approaches to research performance/impact measurement in our rapidly changing academic environment are also considered.Keywords
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