self-aggrandizement oder personal aggrandizement s.o.
Aber mehr geht ohne den vollständigen Satz und Kontext nicht...

aber, stimmt schon, so ohne Kontext ...

Glory
Meanwhile, in the back of everyone’s mind (well, not yours or ours, of course!), is glory—
the fame that comes from occupying a prominent position on the developer team of a widely
used free program. Most programmers with even a peripheral involvement in free software
are likely to recognize the names Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox (for work on the Linux
kernel), Brian Behlendorf (of the Apache Web Server team), and Larry Wall (inventor of,
among other things, the popular Perl programming language). Raw self-aggrandizement
might not be the most attractive motive, but it can be powerful and if properly harnessed, it
can bring about a lot of useful code.

sorry, heres the context

scheint mir dann doch ganz gut zu passen

Sowohl die britische als auch die am. Schreibweise stehen im Leo...