The Impact of Changing Incentives in China on International Cooperation in Social Science Research on China
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- Over the past three decades, China’s fast economic development has induced considerable changes in China’s university and research institution landscape, research financing and academic career incentives. This paper argues that these changes have affected the motivation and the ways in which Chinese scholars engage in international research cooperation. Most recently it has been observed that strong pressures on scholars and scientists – especially at leading academic institutions – to excel in international publications while simultaneouslyOver the past three decades, China’s fast economic development has induced considerable changes in China’s university and research institution landscape, research financing and academic career incentives. This paper argues that these changes have affected the motivation and the ways in which Chinese scholars engage in international research cooperation. Most recently it has been observed that strong pressures on scholars and scientists – especially at leading academic institutions – to excel in international publications while simultaneously fulfilling their obligation to generate income for their institutions can lead to a dilemma with regard to international research cooperation: Those institutions and scholars most interesting for foreign scholars to cooperate with may be the ones with the least amount of both incentive and time to enter into serious cooperation. This article invites us to reflect on the implications of these changes in the incentive structure for cooperation in social science research on China.…
Author: | Doris Fischer |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-120524 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) / Institut für Kulturwissenschaften Ost- und Südasiens |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | Journal of Current Chinese Affairs |
ISSN: | 1868-4874 |
Year of Completion: | 2014 |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pagenumber: | 33-46 |
Source: | Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 2/2014: 33–46 |
URL: | http://nbn-resolving.org/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-7454 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
9 Geschichte und Geografie / 95 Geschichte Asiens / 951 Geschichte Chinas und benachbarter Gebiete | |
Tag: | China; incentives; international cooperation; research funds; social science research |
Release Date: | 2018/04/11 |
Licence (German): | CC BY-ND: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung, Keine Bearbeitung |