“…This also influences the decision of where to start and continue an academic career. While the university systems themselves have been examined previously (Galliers and Whitley, 2007;Lyytinen et al, 2007) and while there is knowledge about career requirements in different university systems (Dennis et al, 2006;Dean et al, 2011;Loos et al, 2013;Recker, 2013), we still do not know much about individual and contextual decisions of academics that either consider or execute a migration between university systems.…”