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Enhancing research quality

Faculty Council meeting, 9 June 2009. Enhancing research quality. From the FC’s mission statement. “Enhancing the quality of research by developing shared databases and adequately assessing and interpreting research output”. Developing shared databases.

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Enhancing research quality

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  1. Faculty Council meeting, 9 June 2009 Enhancing research quality

  2. From the FC’s mission statement “Enhancing the quality of research by developing shared databases and adequately assessing and interpreting research output”

  3. Developing shared databases • Issue: Fragmented, generic databases • Suggestion: Create an own, tailor-made, longitudinal database, reflecting ERIM’s core areas of research (supply chain management, innovation, sustainable development) (cf. CentER’s household database)

  4. Assessing research quality • Issue: Does the ERIM journals list correctly assess quality? • Suggestion: Since the list provides a useful signaling function but no quality guarantee, researchers should demonstrate the impact (bottom line: “make a difference for the academic community”) of their publications (both articles and books) (cf. George Yip’s ‘non-ERIM-list’ impact)

  5. Interpreting research quality • Issue: Faculty seeking to obtain tenure and/or promotion will only aim at meeting ERIM’s ‘high-performer’ standards • Suggestion: Not the sheer numbers and names of journals but the impact of publications (both articles and books) should be decisive for tenure and promotion decisions (Reposition the ERIM list as an indicative list and/or provide ‘escape clauses’ for impactful non-ERIM-list publications)

  6. Other research aspects (i) • Issue: PhD candidates perceive a lack of sufficient high-quality theory & methods courses • Suggestion: Develop more suitable courses internally and communicate existing external courses better

  7. Other research aspects (ii) • Issue: BSc and MSc students are hardly aware of (ERIM’s) research activities • Suggestion: Organise biannual (theme-oriented) seminars that present popularised research findings (Additional benefits: recruitment of PhD candidates, ‘honours’ students, and student assistants)

  8. Other research aspects (iii) • Issue: Many researchers need to find their own funding for attending conferences • Suggestion: Provide a lump-sum conference budget for all ERIM researchers (e.g., EUR 2,500 per year)

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