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on Sociology of Economics |
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Issue of 2013‒05‒24
two papers chosen by Jonas Holmström Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration |
| By: | Murayama, Kota; Nirei, Makoto; Shimizu, Hiroshi |
| Abstract: | This study investigates the impact of management style on research performance in science. If a managerial role is played by a leading scientist in the research team, that is considered management-research integration. If not, we consider that management and research are separated. We found that separating the managerial and research role has a positive effect on the number of papers published for that research project. In contrast, management-research integration is positively associated with the quality of the paper through allowing researchers to pursue serendipitous findings. These results show the trade-off between research efficiency and quality in science via who plays the managerial role and the leading research role. |
| Keywords: | science, serendipity, productivity, research management |
| Date: | 2013–05 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hit:iirwps:13-13&r=sog |
| By: | Fouad El Ouardighi (Operation management Department - ESSEC Business School); Konstantin Kogan (Faculty of Social Sciences - Bar-Ilan University); Radu Vranceanu (Economics Department - ESSEC Business School) |
| Abstract: | This paper analyzes how faculty members dynamically allocate their efforts between improving their research and teaching skills, taking into account the organizational structures and incentives implemented by academic institutions. The model builds on the assumption that organizational structures have an impact on the nature of spillover effects between teaching and research competencies. We analyze the dynamic equilibrium under unilateral and bilateral spillovers, using the no-spillover case as a benchmark. The bilateral spillover case is the most appealing as it achieves the highest overall performance; however, the nature of the equilibrium and the career paths can be quite different depending on the parameters of the problem such as the obsolescence of competencies or the strength of the spillover effect. This finding provides interesting insights on what could be the most productive configuration of a higher education institution. |
| Keywords: | Teaching; Research; Competency spillovers; Effort allocation; Faculty management |
| Date: | 2013–05 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00823514&r=sog |