Academic Research: Motivating Factors and Managerial Relevance – An Intercultural Perspective. Literature Review, Partial Exploratory Results and Future Research Design

Abstract

This paper is part of a larger study concerning the academic research and the valorization of its results for Romanian universities, in general, and from an intercultural perspective, in particular. For reasons of space and pace of the research (on going), we will present the general context and philosophy on which the larger research is based and the partial results concerning the motivating factors for academic research activities. The academic actors investigated were professors, graduate students and doctoral students (pilot samples). The methodology included secondary research, in-depth laddering interviews, focus group and questionnaire based survey.