Ebook Business Administration and Management
Academic research in business administration and management in the Netherlands has made good progress. More research has been published in good quality journals, more attention has been paid to PhD programmes and more international contacts have been developed. This progress is evident in the best programmes. And those, which were good in the past, have now improved a great deal.
As a result of the recent participation by Tilburg University (KUB) and the Vrije Universiteit, plus the separate assessment of the technical business programmes, it has not yet been possible to make a detailed comparison with previous evaluation reports. More importantly, the number, the type and the scale of the programmes have changed in such a way that direct comparisons are very difficult. The faculties concerned in the previous assessment have reduced the number of their programmes from 20 to 13.
Most of the research topics are derived from themes that have been developed in the US or at a European level. A negative consequence of this is that the research agenda in the Netherlands is rather narrow and not always related to the local problems faced by the business community. Consequently, the direct relevance of the academic research for the business community has not increased very much. This is of course also influenced by the fact that the number of people involved in research in the Netherlands is inevitably smaller than in the larger countries, which inevitably limits the scope of the research.
The tendency is that an increasing number of faculties choose to specialize, leading to a reduction in the number of fields of research which can be adequately covered; this in turn, may have a negative impact on educational programmes, i.e. they become less research based.
This research has become very well integrated into the international research community. With respect to progress in international positioning and networking, some groups have made major progress although, as yet, there are no statistics available. On the subject of integration, the Committee recommends that more care be devoted to the integration of outside researchers within the existing research programmes.
The Committee feels that the current split between business economics and management is non-productive and that universities where this applies should seriously consider restructuring the current faculty organizations in order to bring them more in line with common practice outside the Netherlands. Such a reorganization would also make it possible to build larger research teams.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Summary
1 The Dutch System for Quality Assessment of Research
1.1 The review Committee for Business Administration and Management 12
1.2 Assignment and scope of the assessment
1.3 Data provided to the Committee
1.4 Procedure followed by the Committee
1.5 Aspects of assessment
1.6 Ratings
2 Overall evaluation of Dutch research programmes in Business Administration and Management
2.1 Overall evaluation
2.2 Major issues
2.3 Suggestions and recommendations for the future
3 Evaluation of sub-disciplines
3.1 Strategic management
3.2 Operations/logistics/information management
3.3 Marketing
3.4 Financial Management and Accounting
3.5 Organisational renewal and HRM
4 Evaluation of Faculties and Programmes
4.1 Introduction
4.2 University of Groningen
4.3 Tilburg University
4.4 Erasmus University Rotterdam
4.5 University of Nijmegen
4.6 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
4.7 Universiteit Maastricht
Appendix 1 Discipline Protocol
Appendix 2 Curricula vitae
Appendix 3 Programmes and assessments
Appendix 4 Research input and results
Appendix 5 Preliminary assessment form
Appendix 6 List of abbreviations
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