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Book announcement: Incentives and Performance -Governance of Research Organizations (2015)

  • 1.  Book announcement: Incentives and Performance -Governance of Research Organizations (2015)

    Posted 12-18-2014 10:00

    ***Apologies for any cross-postings***

     

    Dear ladies and gentlemen,

     

    We would like to announce the following book that we published very recently:

    Welpe, I. M., Wollersheim, J., Ringelhan, S., & Osterloh, M. (Eds.) (2015). Incentives and Performance - Governance of Research Organizations. Cham et al.: Springer International Publishing.


    The book comprises the following chapters with contributions from international researchers in the field (e.g., William Starbuck, Mathias Binswanger, Alice Lam):

     

    Preface – Does science go wrong?

    1)      Performance management

    2)      Performance measurement

    3)      Incentives: Monetary or non-monetary? Extrinsic or intrinsic?

    4)      Innovation and creativity: Fostering and impeding conditions

    5)      Innovative approaches to research evaluation

    6)      What research organizations can learn from knowledge-intensive business

    7)      Applied contributions, country and case studies

    8)      Incentives and performance: What we can learn from a fairy tale

     

    Further information on the book is provided on the following website: www.springer.com/business+%26+management/organization/book/978-3-319-09784-8

     

    Best regards and a pleasant advent season,

    Isabell M. Welpe, Jutta Wollersheim, Stefanie Ringelhan, and Margit Osterloh