Effect of Colleague Context and Faculty Size on Scientific Productivity

Don M Baridam ,Letam Q Don-Baridam

doi:10.7176/ejbm/13-14-02

Abstract

The objective of this study was to find out the influence colleague context and faculty size on scientific productivity among lecturers in Administrative Sciences. Data were obtained from 176 faculty members in Administrative Sciences drawn from 11 Universities in Quebec Canada. The result of our findings showed positive and significant relationship between contacts with colleagues on research matters and single, multiple authored articles in refereed journals and multiple authored chapters in books. There was positive though, no significant relationship between colleague context and total articles and total book production. The result also revealed that aside the positive and significant relationship between faculty size and the production of single authored chapters in books, all other publication production measures did not have any significant relationship with faculty size. Based on these findings, it was concluded that colleague context and faculty size are not very good predictors of publication production in the faculties of administrative sciences. The implications for this study along with some directions for further study are addressed, Keywords: Scientific productivity, colleague context, faculty size. DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/13-14-02 Publication date: July 31 st 2021

Highlights

1.Introduction There are very few studies on the effect of colleague context and faculty size on scientific performance (Min and Yong 2014, Hesli and Lee, 2011, Carayol and Matt, 2006, Welsch and Zimmer, 2016). Even in these few studies there is no significant study on the effect of colleague context and faculty size on scientific productivity in administrative sciences
Giving the cognitive structure of the field of administrative sciences, the objective of this study is to find out the influence of colleague context and faculty size on scientific productivity
Interaction with colleagues and faculty size will not have any effect on publication production if the faulty member does not have interest in publication production

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Introduction

There are very few studies on the effect of colleague context and faculty size on scientific performance (Min and Yong 2014, Hesli and Lee, 2011, Carayol and Matt, 2006, Welsch and Zimmer, 2016). Fields in the physical and chemical sciences like physics, and chemistry, have what Kuhn (1970) calls highly developed paradigms Empirical knowledge in these fields is compacted, and precise; graduate students can discover quickly the current state of their field from textbooks and can commence work on the research frontiers while still graduate students. This is not the case in fields like administrative sciences, zoology and biology, which have less developed paradigms, since more experience is required to gain competence

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