Academic Arena Contest:An Integrated Conceptual Framework for Academic Profession Research and an Illustrating Case
Existing literature on academic profession lacks a systematic and integrated perspective and often faces the dilemma of institutional determinism.The"academic arena contest"conceptual framework describes the cognition and behavior of the state,universities and academics throughout the process of"arena setting—access to arena—the attack or offense behavior—arena advancement".It emphasizes the interaction and negotiation between agents and external institutions,thus shaping the agency-structure dynamics through the context effect mechanism,action generation mechanism,and agency transition mechanism.Applying the conceptual framework to the case study of academic publishing,it identifies key factors that influence the process of academic publishing and its mechanisms."Academic arena contest"can be used as an integrated conceptual framework to understand and explain the formation and mechanisms pertaining to academic identity,academic behavior,academic status and academic development,which allows a longitudinal and more holistic investigation of the evolution of the academic profession to understand its internal drives and rationales.
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