Abstract
Recently, Nature (Van Noorden, 2015) published an analysis in which various research areas and sub-areas were compared with respect to their interdisciplinarity. Public administration, together with political science, did not score well in comparison with other social sciences. <...> <Read the full article on: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2016.1118924 > <...> Moving forward: Clearly a more interdisciplinary approach would help to increase the relevance of public management research. I have three recommendations for discussion: •Research funds should be allocated according to a proposal’s likelihood of solving contemporary problems, rather than by the expected theoretical contribution within a single discipline. •Career incentives and rewards in academia should not be limited to collaborations and publications within a group of closely related disciplines. •Ranking of social science journals should not be as dependent as at present on speed of citations.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 76 - 78 |
| Journal | Public Money and Management |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (ÖFOS)
- 505027 Administrative studies
- 211903 Science of management
- 502023 NPO research
- 509
- 506002 E-government
- 605005 Audience research
Keywords
- debate
- interdisciplinar
- public
- public adminstration
- public management
- science