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Publish or teach? The role of the scientific environment on academics’ multitasking

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  • Yann Kossi
  • Jean-Yves Lesueur
  • Mareva Sabatier

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This article analyzes how scientific environment can affect researchers’ job design. In a principal agent framework, we model researchers’s choice between substitutable tasks, publishing or teaching, according to their individual abilities and their scientific environment. The model shows that a dynamic scientific environment increases individual investment in research, regardless of researchers’ abilities. Using an original French data set of economics professors, the econometric results confirm this prediction but advocate for a gradual implementation of these spillovers effects.

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  • Yann Kossi & Jean-Yves Lesueur & Mareva Sabatier, 2016. "Publish or teach? The role of the scientific environment on academics’ multitasking," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 25(3), pages 487-506.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:indcch:v:25:y:2016:i:3:p:487-506.
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    Cited by:

    1. Ingvild Reymert & Taran Thune, 2020. "Complementarity and trade-off between academic work tasks," Working Papers on Innovation Studies 20200825, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo.
    2. Ingvild Reymert & Taran Thune, 2023. "Task complementarity in academic work: a study of the relationship between research, education and third mission tasks among university professors," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 48(1), pages 331-360, February.
    3. Alberto Baccini & Lucio Barabesi & Martina Cioni & Caterina Pisani, 2013. "Crossing the hurdle: the determinants of individual scientific performance," Department of Economics University of Siena 691, Department of Economics, University of Siena.
    4. A. Baccini & L. Barabesi & M. Cioni & C. Pisani, 2014. "Crossing the hurdle: the determinants of individual scientific performance," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 101(3), pages 2035-2062, December.

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    JEL classification:

    • C3 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables
    • D2 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations
    • D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty

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