"Pay for Promise" in Higher Education: the Influence of NPM on Resource Allocation in German Universities

Quantification as a way to govern by numbers has colonised all sectors of modern societies. In the German higher education sector, a Performance-Based Resource Allocation scheme (commonly referred to as Leistungsorientierte Mittelverteilung - LOM for short) has steadily been developed since the 1990s. In an organisational context characterised by increasing international competition and internal d…