Organizational factors influencing scholarly performance: a multivariate study of biomedical research groups

Verbree, M.; Horlings, Edwin; Groenewegen, Peter; Weijden, I.C.M. van der; Besselaar, P.A.A. van den

doi:10.1007/s11192-014-1437-x

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“…The results show that personal factors, behaviour factors and university factors are associated with the enhancement of Sustainability 2019, 11, 4804 7 of 28 research productivity in universities. According to Verbree et al [22], it is essential to examine the impact of personal factors, behavioural factors and organisational factors on academic staff in universities to improve the research productivity performance of academic staff. This research indicates that personal characteristics, behaviour and university factors have a significant relationship with research productivity for academic staff in universities.…”

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The Influence of Personal and Organizational Factors on Researchers’ Attitudes towards Sustainable Research Productivity in Saudi Universities

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Purpose: This paper studies organisational and personal factors affecting the behaviour of academic staff in Saudi universities. It seeks to investigate the beliefs of academic staff regarding the use of ICT and other factors to enhance the productivity of their scientific research. Also, this study aims to improve the sustainability of publication in Saudi universities. ICT includes using the library system for accessing research repository databases such as Science Direct, Web of Science, Scopus, etc. and other factors. The authors also developed the Importance Performance Map Analysis (IPMA) for these factors in order to provide guidelines for Saudi universities to build university systems to manage and measure the research productivity of academic staff. In summary, this research identifies factors critical to enhancing research productivity in Saudi universities. This will help to improve the sustainability of publication in Saudi universities. By enhancing the sustainability of publication, the reputation of Saudi universities will be improved and the reputation of academic staff in Saudi universities. As well the sustainability of publication will assist the promote of Saudi academic staff. Approach: This paper analysed 200 papers related to the enhancement of research productivity from various research databases such as Science Direct, IEEE and Scopus. We included the usage of ICT in research analysis, university policy, university research funding and the number of publications published by academic staff. The authors used different databases and systematic literature reviews (SLR) to find the most important factors which could improve research productivity in universities. An online questionnaire answered by 375 academic staff from four developing Saudi universities that are Taif University, Taibah University, Jeddah University, Hail University-was used to determine the relationship between information technology factors and research performance together with other factors such as university policy, international collaboration, research funding and job satisfaction. In this study, we used SmartPLS v3 to analyse the results from the questionnaires. Findings: The results show that personal factors such as personal use of ICT and organisational factors such as job satisfaction, university policy, IT funding, international collaboration and the level of ICT use in the university have positive effects on scientific research productivity among academic staff at Saudi universities. Those results are based on the beliefs of academic staff regarding the use of information Sustainability 2019, 11, 4804 2 of 28 technology for research purposes and other factors. This paper finds that university policy recorded an importance of 0.523, job satisfaction was 0.224, international collaboration was 0.103, personal use of ICT was 0.102, the level of using ICT in the university was 0.074 and the importance of ICT funding was -0.156. Also, the results from SmartPLS show that university policy has a 0.215 effect size on res...

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confidence: 99%

The Influence of Personal and Organizational Factors on Researchers’ Attitudes towards Sustainable Research Productivity in Saudi Universities

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“…Communication and collaboration between team members, the role of the leader, research experience, and group size were identified as important factors to explain variation in group productivity. These factors have been examined in a large number of follow-up studies: Size and productivity (Cohen 1991; Seglen and Aksnes 2000; Guimerà et al 2005; Heinze et al 2009; Wheelan 2009; Kenna and Berche 2011; Maaike et al 2015), cooperation within groups (Andrade et al 2009), the role of the leader (Nagpaul and Gupta 1989; Hemlin 2006; Pudovkin et al 2012; Maaike et al 2015), and the groups’ importance for PhD-students (Meschitti and Carassa 2014). A review of the literature on research groups indicates that belonging to an established research group leads to higher scientific production (e.g.…”

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Research collaboration in groups and networks: differences across academic fields

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The purpose of this paper is to give a macro-picture of collaboration in research groups and networks across all academic fields in Norwegian research universities, and to examine the relative importance of membership in groups and networks for individual publication output. To our knowledge, this is a new approach, which may provide valuable information on collaborative patterns in a particular national system, but of clear relevance to other national university systems. At the system level, conducting research in groups and networks are equally important, but there are large differences between academic fields. The research group is clearly most important in the field of medicine and health, while undertaking research in an international network is most important in the natural sciences. Membership in a research group and active participation in international networks are likely to enhance publication productivity and the quality of research.

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“…Indeed, it is well known that institutional configurations have a deep impact on a unit's activities (Crow and Bozeman 1998), but this phenomenon has been less studied in the case of university units (see Verbree et al 2015). To our knowledge, the connection with the configuration of funding streams, and particularly with dual university funding, has rarely been made.…”

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The dynamics of university units as a multi‐level process. Credibility cycles and resource dependencies

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This paper presents an analysis of resource acquisition and profile development of institutional units within universities. We conceptualize resource acquisition as a twolevel nested process, where units compete for external resources based on their credibility, but at the same time are granted faculty positions from the larger units (department) to which they belong. Our model implies that the growth of university units is constrained by the decisions of their parent department on the allocation of professorial positions, which represent the critical resource for most units' activities. In our field of study this allocation is largely based on educational activities, and therefore, units with high scientific credibility are not necessarily able to grow, despite an increasing reliance on external funds. Our paper therefore sheds light on the implications that the dual funding system of European universities has for the development of units, while taking into account the interaction between institutional funding and third-party funding.

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Organizational factors influencing scholarly performance: a multivariate study of biomedical research groups

Cited by 36 publications

References 125 publications

The Influence of Personal and Organizational Factors on Researchers’ Attitudes towards Sustainable Research Productivity in Saudi Universities

The Influence of Personal and Organizational Factors on Researchers’ Attitudes towards Sustainable Research Productivity in Saudi Universities

Research collaboration in groups and networks: differences across academic fields

The dynamics of university units as a multi‐level process. Credibility cycles and resource dependencies

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