Success and Failure of PhD Programmes: An Empirical Study of the Interplay Between Interests, Resources and Organisation

Schneider, Peter; Thaller, Nicole; Sadowski, Dieter

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9139-0_6

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“…However, there is no significant difference in completion rates. The study by Schneider et al (2010) is based on the theoretical sampling of economics departments according to their research intensity and the type of PhD-programme (structured collective education vs. individual master-apprenticeship relations). With complex Boolean combination logic the authors identify those conditions that characterise departments with an academic placement above average compared to those with an academic placement below average and disentangle the relationship between necessary conditions and sufficient ones.…”

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Governance and Performance in the German Public Research Sector

Jansen¹

2010

Higher Education Dynamics

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Governance and Performance in the German Public Research Sector

Jansen¹

2010

Higher Education Dynamics

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“…This reform aims at introducing a new way of organising doctoral education, based on formalised courses and more intense competition between applicants. However, the experience is still too young and there is a debate on preliminary, incomplete results of the experiment (Schneider et al 2010 ).…”

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Institutions of Public Science and New Search Regimes

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2014

Higher Education Dynamics

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“…Statistical analyses are yet to be done. This would make it possible to integrate control variables, such as the goal orientation of departments (Breneman 1976;Bartelse 1999;Sadowski et al 2008), the didactic elements of PhD education (Bowen and Rudenstine 1992;Hilmer and Hilmer 2007) or differing resource levels (Schneider et al 2009) and the interaction of these variables.…”

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The impact of new public management instruments on PhD education

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Sadowski

2009

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New public governance emphasises less state, more market and more hierarchy as the cornerstones for effective steering of higher education institutions. Based on an explorative analysis of qualitative and quantitative data of fourteen German and European economics departments, we investigate the steering effects of six new public management instruments in the years 2001 and 2002 on subsequent placement success of PhD graduates. Using crisp set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to analyse the data, our results deliver strong support for the positive effects of competition for resources and the varying effects of hierarchy on PhD education. Governance of successful departments is characterised by two solutions: transparency over academic achievements as one single success factor in each solution or a combination of additional funding based on national competitive performance with either no public policy regulations for departments or no university regulations for departments. Governance of unsuccessful departments is characterised by one solution: university regulations for departments or a combination of no additional funding based on national competitive performance and no transparency over academic achievements. Our results strengthen the strong impact of selected competitive mechanisms as an effective governance instrument and the partially detrimental effects of state regulations. University regulations turn out to be successful if they increase transparency over academic achievements by faculty members. Success is unlikely if those rules intervene into PhD education.

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Success and Failure of PhD Programmes: An Empirical Study of the Interplay Between Interests, Resources and Organisation

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Governance and Performance in the German Public Research Sector

Governance and Performance in the German Public Research Sector

Institutions of Public Science and New Search Regimes

The impact of new public management instruments on PhD education

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