Paper Type
Complete
Abstract
Academics face growing pressure to publish, teach, and serve. Drawing on the Real Option Theory, this article aimed to illustrate the importance of research teams and co-authors in increasing research productivity. Using publication data from nine leading IS journals (1992–2022), we investigated the heterogeneous effects of the individual coauthoring network on research productivity during three different career periods. Additionally, we surveyed 88 tenure track and tenured faculty about their institutional requirements for tenure and how coauthors were involved in developing their publications. Our findings suggest that research productivity benefits from coauthors with substantial publishing experience. Furthermore, co-authors with interdisciplinary research and diversity of domain knowledge contribute positively to research success. However, teams with various methodological skills can reduce the productivity of the publication.
Paper Number
1790
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Yuhui; Abdelhamid, Mohamed; Smith, Sanjukta Das; and Sanders, George Lawrence, "The Academic as an Entrepreneur: Real Options and Co-authoring in IS Scholarship" (2025). AMCIS 2025 Proceedings. 4.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2025/intelfuture/intelfuture/4
The Academic as an Entrepreneur: Real Options and Co-authoring in IS Scholarship
Academics face growing pressure to publish, teach, and serve. Drawing on the Real Option Theory, this article aimed to illustrate the importance of research teams and co-authors in increasing research productivity. Using publication data from nine leading IS journals (1992–2022), we investigated the heterogeneous effects of the individual coauthoring network on research productivity during three different career periods. Additionally, we surveyed 88 tenure track and tenured faculty about their institutional requirements for tenure and how coauthors were involved in developing their publications. Our findings suggest that research productivity benefits from coauthors with substantial publishing experience. Furthermore, co-authors with interdisciplinary research and diversity of domain knowledge contribute positively to research success. However, teams with various methodological skills can reduce the productivity of the publication.
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