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The focus might be on submission, not on acceptance (given the relative difficulties inherent in achieving acceptance in journals). Other forms of ensuring alignment between journal article publication and dissertation and thesis development should be enabled. Encouragingly, no negative relationship between the number of staff supervised by an academic and research productivity was found. It is recommended that more senior professors with higher research outputs be encouraged to also take on administrative leadership if these roles indeed do not constrain their research output. Such leadership might itself enable research productivity if research productivity is indeed highly ‘tacit’ in nature; expert leadership focused on the transmission of institutional capital may be needed. It is also argued that the retention of more senior research staff be prioritised, as these individuals might hold the key to the development of research productivity premised on a ‘learning by doing’ approach. It is also recommended that further research specifically tests the extent to which ‘global’ literature does indeed apply to relationships in the South African academic context. With management schools rated fifteenth-best in the world (World Economic Forum, 2012), this local academic context is not independent of the broader local context associated with the fifth-worst rated education system in the world; and not independent of the societal obligations in terms of research productivity that are also associated with this broader local context.
A HOLISTIC AND CONTEXT-SPECIFIC PERSPECTIVE OF CONSTRAINTS TO RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT