Research productivity in business economics: An investigation of Austrian, German and Swiss Universities

German Economic Review

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 506-531

  Fabel, Oliver ^a   Hein, Miriam ^b   Hofmeister, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business economics; Research productivity; Research rankings

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; DATA SET; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; RANKING; RESEARCH WORK; TRAINING; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 52249096766     PISSN: 14656485     EISSN: 14680475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0475.2008.00450.x     Document Type: Article

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