Université de Fribourg

The dynamics of university units as a multi-level process. Credibility cycles and resource dependencies

Lepori, Benedetto ; Wise, Michael ; Ingenhoff, Diana ; Buhmann, Alexander

In: Scientometrics, 2016, vol. 109, no. 3, p. 2279–2301

This paper presents an analysis of resource acquisition and profile development of institutional units within universities. We conceptualize resource acquisition as a two level nested process, where units compete for external resources based on their credibility, but at the same time are granted faculty positions from the larger units (department) to which they belong. Our model implies that the...