دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی تاثیر بین المللی همکاری های تحقیقاتی بر رضایت شغلی - الزویر 2018

ABSTRACT

The concept of collaboration cosmopolitanism has referred to the institutional and geographic distance characteristics of academic researchers' collaboration patterns. We study the effect of collaboration cosmopolitanism on doctoral level research personnel working in different sectors–government, industry, and academia. The study examines the impact of collaboration cosmopolitanism on an important aspect of career success: job satisfaction. We employ the 2006 and 2010 Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR) collected by the US National Science Foundation to evaluate the cross-sectional and longitudinal effect of collaboration cosmopolitanism on job satisfaction. We are particularly interested in doctoral level researchers’ job satisfaction related to sector of employment while controlling for demographic and work characteristics such as gender, minority status, salary, and work hours. Findings suggest that scientists working at a higher level of collaboration cosmopolitanism tend to report a higher level of job satisfaction. Furthermore, we find that academic scientists are more satisfied than those working in industry. This finding holds in the longitudinal model—industry scientists are less satisfied—but we find that over time, government scientists are more satisfied than academic scientists, and much more satisfied than industry scientists.

Conclusion

The central conclusion of this paper is straightforward, that doctoral researchers who are engaged in a higher degree of collaboration cosmopolitanism have higher levels of job satisfaction, but this finding holds for academics and government scientists only. On average, academic and government researchers involved in broader collaboration patterns outside of their geographical and institutional boundaries have greater job satisfaction than their counterparts working in industry. While there is the presumption that academic jobs are superior alternatives for those holding the doctorate, an important contribution of this paper is the empirical demonstration of that dynamic. Furthermore, government sector researchers who have had greater cosmopolitan experience in their research activities are found to have greater job satisfaction controlling for other work characteristics including past job satisfaction. On the other hand, such experiences for industry sector researchers negatively influence at the time of collaboration as well as afterwards, implying the importance of cautious design in promoting collaboration activities particularly for industry research personnel. Prevalence and greater advocacy of collaboration do not mean that it has greater benefit for everyone.