The Downside of Relying on Research Outputs to Assess Business Faculty Performance: Comments From Down Under Regarding 'Facilitating and Creating Synergies Between Teaching and Research:The Role of the Academic Administrator'

摘要

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; name-ly, 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 raDidly chanein£ academic environment are also considered.