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What Drives Publication Productivity in German Business Faculties?

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How well universities prosper depends on their reputations, which in turn depend on high-level published research. I investigate German data from Handelsblatt and Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung (CHE) for university business faculties and show that publication productivity is characterized by increasing returns to scale, which stem from the number of professors a university employs, and that a higher ratio of students per professor does not usually hurt productivity. Third-party funds show only a small and weakly signifcant impact. My analysis of the total costs of universities indicates that publications, student education, and contract research all exhibit signifcant economies of scale.

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Albers, S. What Drives Publication Productivity in German Business Faculties?. Schmalenbach Bus Rev 67, 6–33 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03396921

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