Collaborating with Management Academics in a New Economy: Benefits and Challenges

Yongyan Li and Guangwei Hu
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Yongyan Li: Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Guangwei Hu: Department of English, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Publications, 2018, vol. 6, issue 1, 1-17

Abstract: As a response to intensified globalization, international research collaboration has become common in the social sciences. This paper reports a study that examined what Chinese management academics and their overseas counterparts perceived to be the benefits and challenges arising from research collaboration with each other. Data collected with two parallel questionnaires administered, respectively, to 114 Chinese and 30 overseas management academics revealed a variety of perceived benefits relating mainly to Chinese and overseas academics’ complementing strengths. Analysis of the same data also identified an array of perceived challenges stemming from a combination of cultural, epistemological, ideological, linguistic, institutional, and relational differences. Our study generated insights to be drawn upon in policy-making and in the coordination of international research collaboration.

Keywords: international research collaboration; social sciences; scholarly publication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 D83 L82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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