Universitäre Leistungsbewertungen als Bedrohung der akademischen Identität? Ein subjektorientierter Blick auf die Beurteilung und Kontrolle wissenschaftlicher Leistungen im Zeichen von New Public Management

Does Academia Still Call? Experiences of Academics in Germany and the United States

“…Haller 2013; Kreckel and Zimmermann 2014;Reuter et al 2016). Recent research has shown that the traditional perception of callings in academia still shape Germans scholars' expectations about the nature of the commitment required, although the demographic backgrounds of academics and career conditions in academia 2 have changed quite significantly (Matthies 2015;Hamann 2016;Janßen and Sondermann 2016). As a result, young academics in Germany today face a double challenge: they are expected to respond to the traditional calling to be a philosophical mind who is entirely devoted to academic work, while the new demands of the academic system simultaneously require them to act as an entrepreneurial self who seeks to maximize his or her human capital (Funken et al 2015).…”