Hiring from within: multi-faceted impact

Maria Yudkevich

Chapter 8 in Handbook on Corruption in Higher Education, 2025, pp 117-132 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Inbreeding is a practice whereby universities hire their own graduates. Hiring from within reflects different patterns in different national academic systems across the world. While universities in some countries consider this a main channel to bring new faculty on board, in others inbreeding may be considered detrimental to efficiency or even prohibited either at the institutional or national levels. Existing empirical literature reports an ambiguous effect of inbreeding on research productivity or reflects a consensus on the mechanisms of the impact of this practice that go far beyond mere productivity. This chapter considers a range of consequences of inbreeding in higher education institutions and shows how and why local recruitment can result in favoritism and nepotism and how these recruitment patterns are imbedded in the broader social context.

Keywords: Inbreeding; Nepotism; Recruitment; Social networks; Social capital; Academic mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035320233
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