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Foreword: Award Winning AESOP Teaching Prize 2009

2010

Performance-based research funding: Evidence from the largest natural experiment worldwide

2023

A performance-based research funding system (PRFS) is a nationwide incentive scheme that promotes and rewards university research performance through competition for government funding. The UK’s PRFS, currently the Research Excellence Framework (REF), is considered the oldest, largest and most developed payment-by-results system in academia worldwide. Surprisingly, and despite the strong criticisms, little has been done to quantitatively and casually evaluate the intended and unintended effects of the PRFSs. In this paper, we evaluate the incremental impact of the REF 2014 in the fields of Economics and Business. We use a synthetic control method to compare the performance of UK universitie…

Open Access & Research Assessment: Implementing OA for REF2021

2017

British Research Excellence Framework 2021 and it´s implications to deposit and access requirements of research publications.

Future directions in solid state chemistry: report of the NSF-sponsored workshop

2002

Abstract A long-established area of scientific excellence in Europe, solid state chemistry has emerged in the US in the past two decades as a field experiencing rapid growth and development. At its core, it is an interdisciplinary melding of chemistry, physics, engineering, and materials science, as it focuses on the design, synthesis and structural characterization of new chemical compounds and characterization of their physical properties. As a consequence of this inherently interdisciplinary character, the solid state chemistry community is highly open to the influx of new ideas and directions. The inclusionary character of the field’s culture has been a significant factor in its continu…

TQM self-assessment evolves and promotes strategic learning at Ericsson España S.A.

2003

Self-assessment is a comprehensive, systematic, and regular review of an organization's activities and results in reference to a business excellence model. This process allows the organization to clearly discern its strengths and deficiencies, launch improvement plans, and monitor their progress. When organizations repeatedly carry out this cycle of evaluation and action taking, they can achieve genuine and sustained improvement. Many firms have found self-assessment to be an important tool for fostering continuous improvement, one of the fundamental principles of total quality management (TQM). Indeed, self-assessment has been employed by the winners of the most important quality awards—th…

The strategy formation process in the EFQM Excellence Model: a critical review and new perspectives

2011

The adoption of an integrative strategy formation process becomes a way of developing a strategic capability that contributes to generating positive results and sustainable competitive advantages. In today's environments, many companies are also using the EFQM Excellence Model (EEM) to try to develop such a strategic capability. This paper presents an exhaustive review of the literature on the strategic process debate and on the strategic capability of the EEM. As a result, we offer to practitioners a conceptual framework which shows the EEM as a useful driver to facilitate the development of an integrative strategy formation process, and we propose a set of dimensions and variables (the le…

Rationality, participation and results: the case of the European excellence model in a Spanish services context

2011

The study of the simultaneous effect of employee participation and rationality on organisational results by companies applying the EFQM Excellence Model has been scarcely developed in the literature. Trying to fill this gap, this paper empirically studies the relationship between participation and rationality with organisational results in a sample of Spanish firms applying this model. The case of service firms has been of utmost importance in this study. The study findings reveal that both rationality and participation are indirectly related to key organisational results, though this indirect effect is not present in the case of service firms. This paper encourages the use of the EFQM mode…

Overcoming the “lost before translation” problem: An exploratory study

2019

This paper draws on Stokes’ (1997) framework to position the disconnection between theory and practice as a knowledge production problem. In this sense, we argue that a better understanding of different academic profiles is extremely important to focus efforts on those academics that may overcome the ‘lost before translation’ problem. Our data, that come from a survey of researchers affiliated to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), provide a good opportunity to explore the factors that might increase or impede the likelihood that researchers engage in research that reconciles the quest for fundamental understanding with the consideration of use (Pasteur’s profile), rather than in …

Inclusión de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación en la formación estadística

2011

Tomando en cuenta las dificultades que manifiestan los alumnos para comprender la concepción de modelos estadísticos, en un curso de grado de Probabilidad y Estadística para Ingeniería se planteó la incorporación de recursos didácticos con soporte tecnológico. Para favorecer la interacción se creó un grupo en la plataforma Google donde participaron libremente alumnos y docentes. Paralelamente se diseñó una secuencia didáctica referida a variables aleatorias, con soporte en la planilla Excel. Ambas propuestas fueron evaluadas en forma cualitativa y cuantitativa mediante registros de clases y encuestas a los alumnos. Los resultados permitieron identificar debilidades y fortalezas así como ref…

Synthesis and luminescent properties of Mn-doped alpha-tricalcium phosphate

2021

This project has received funding from European Social Fund (project No 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-19-0069) under grant agreement with the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT). Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia as the Center of Excellence has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017-TeamingPhase2 under grant agreement No. 739508, project CAMART². The World Federation of Scientists is highly acknowledged for the National Scholarship to AZ. © 2021. This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.