I am steadily accumulating windmills against which I tilt. The one I want to bring to public management scholars attention today is attribution for data.
We have strong norms for ensuring attribution of theoretical advances. Our citation lists overflow with recognition of previous academic publications. Professional advancement is driven, in part, by the process of getting recognized for these sorts of publications. However, we could not write many of the articles we do without data collected by others. It is time data sets get the recognition they deserves.
