TY - JOUR
T1 - Motivational recipes and research performance
T2 - A fuzzy set analysis of the motivational profile of high performing research scientists
AU - Ryan, James Christopher
AU - Berbegal-Mirabent, Jasmina
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful for research funding from The Center for Public Policy and Leadership (grant G00001569), United Arab Emirates University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - Recent research identifies internal self-concept motivation and instrumental motivation as having positive and negative effects, respectively, on the performance of research scientists. However, the majority of research examining the work motivations of research scientists employs bad research practices. The current study presents an alternative view of the relations between work motivations and research performance through the examination of causal recipes of research performance. Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of a random sample of 300 UK scientists identifies recipes of work motivations that effectively foster high levels of research performance. Contrary to prior liner examinations of the relations between motivation and performance, results show that no unique combination of antecedent work motivations yield higher levels of research performance. This finding suggests that several combinations of work motivations can successfully drive high levels of research performance.
AB - Recent research identifies internal self-concept motivation and instrumental motivation as having positive and negative effects, respectively, on the performance of research scientists. However, the majority of research examining the work motivations of research scientists employs bad research practices. The current study presents an alternative view of the relations between work motivations and research performance through the examination of causal recipes of research performance. Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of a random sample of 300 UK scientists identifies recipes of work motivations that effectively foster high levels of research performance. Contrary to prior liner examinations of the relations between motivation and performance, results show that no unique combination of antecedent work motivations yield higher levels of research performance. This finding suggests that several combinations of work motivations can successfully drive high levels of research performance.
KW - Research productivity
KW - Scientific research performance
KW - Work motivation
KW - fsQCA
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.04.128
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.04.128
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84966771389
SN - 0148-2963
VL - 69
SP - 5299
EP - 5304
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
IS - 11
ER -