Abstract:Successful hiring decisions are important for both academic institutions and individual faculty members. While factors including institutional prestige and gender are shown to affect faculty hiring outcome, there is a lack of study on whether and how research collaboration helps. We aimed at bridging this gap with a hand‐curated dataset of 81 junior faculty members from 27 information schools. Specifically, we analysed the effect of advisors and collaborators on faculty placement, controlling for a candidate's… Show more
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