Antecedents and near-term consequences for interdisciplinary dissertators.

ABSTRACT: Given the complexity of questions studied by academicians, institutions are increasingly encouraging interdisciplinary research to tackle these problems; however, neither the individual-level pathways leading to the pursuit of interdisciplinary research nor the resulting market outcomes have been closely examined. In this study, we focus attention on the individuals who complete interdisciplinary dissertations to ask "who are they and how do they fare after earning the PhD?" Since interdisciplinary research is known to be relatively risky among academics, we examine demographic variables that are known to be associated in other contexts with risk-taking before considering whether interdisciplinarians' outcomes are different upon graduating. First among our three main findings, students who

SUBMITTER: Kniffin KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5438433 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature