Congeniality and Research Productivity in State-Professional-Market Driven Systems of Mass Higher Education

Abstract

This study aims to compare congeniality and research productivity across higher education systems and examine the impact of congeniality on research productivity. Most of the literature has grouped influential factors into two broad categories: individual-level characteristics and institutional features. This study covers both levels. It conceptualizes congeniality as situations that are suitable to one’s professional inclinations and that are beneficial to the academic profession. We hypothesized that the relationship between congeniality and research productivity varies across the state-professional-market-oriented systems of mass/non-mass higher education. Results show that congeniality was higher in the professional model, which also had lower research productivity than in the state and market models. Despite the assumption that each country’s context is important, there are also common predictors that explain faculty research productivity.