The Plural Nature of Excellence: Why Your Definition Matters More Than You Think

Research reveals a fundamental challenge organizations face when pursuing excellence: what counts as excellent depends entirely on who’s doing the counting. A comprehensive analysis of research excellence frameworks found that excellence is described by experts as “hard to define,” “contextual,” and critically, “actor-dependent” (Tijssen & Kraemer-Mbula, 2018). This isn’t a semantic quibble. When excellence becomes […]