Promotion, motivation, and faculty research productivity: Theory testing and model construction for a Taiwanese setting.

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This study explored to what degree promotion motivates and rewards faculty research productivity in a Taiwanese setting. It uses a range of statistical analyses to test three different theories in their ability to answer the following research questions: (1) To what degree does the desire for promotion motivate faculty to perform research? (2) For what kinds of faculty does promotion motivate them to perform research? (3) To what degree does the promotion system actually reward faculty research productivity? Twelve research hypotheses were generated from behavioral reinforcement theory (psychology), expectancy theory (psychology), and universalism (sociology of science). They were tested on four sources of data: faculty vitae, National Science Council data, institutional publication lists, and a mail survey. The data included 1,017 full time faculty members' career publication records. Statistical analyses of the data included a nonresponse bias analysis, binary tests of difference, mu

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