Business research productivity and barriers

Abstract

Knowing why some faculty members are more scholarly productive than others and what factors influence research productivity in an institution is essential to guiding research productivity improvement efforts. This study explored the research productivity and perceived research barriers to conducting research by the business faculty members at the Kuwait University (KU) as well as the influence of their individual characteristics on the reported productivity and barriers. The reported business research productivity tends to be low. Barriers related to research efficacy, physical and information resources, fiscal resources, and time reportedly challenge research productivity. However, the individual characteristics of gender, age, nationality, academic rank, experience at HE, time spent on research, and time spent on teaching variably influence the reported research productivity and perceived research barriers. These findings as well as their implications and limitations are further discussed in the paper.

Factors that Influence the Individual Research Output of University Professors: The Case of Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia

“…The results confirm that the gender was not statistically significant in the production of research papers. Previous literature suggests that there is conflicting evidence on the influence of gender on individual research output (Khalil & Khalil, 2019). Similar results were found by Webber (2011), who concluded that female researchers have production levels similar to those of their male peers but that there could be differences according to the academic discipline, mainly because no distinctions have been made in terms of the academic disciplines of women.…”

“…Several studies aim to explain the lower intellectual production of women throughout their careers caused by differences in family responsibilities, different patterns of time use, unequal resource allocation, different patterns in academic collaboration, and gender bias in peer-review (Sá et al, 2020). However, some studies contradict these results since they found that gender has no significant effect on research productivity indicators and women have production rates similar to their male peers (Khalil & Khalil, 2019). Moreover, previous studies show that there could be differences in research productivity by gender that depend on their academic fields.…”