Title | Understanding the Influence of Family Background on Professional Achievements: The Career Performance of Academics |
| Author(s) | - Shannon Lin, Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University, Canada
- Zeng Lin, College of Education, Illinois State University, United States
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| Publication Name | Asia Pacific Career Development Journal, Vol 7, No 1 |
| Publication Date | March, 2024 |
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| Abstract | This study explores various factors influencing the career performance of university professors in China and the United States, utilizing rank, income, and the number of published journal articles as performance measures. Despite the widely acknowledged role of family background in an individual’s educational and professional pursuits, our findings reveal that it fails to statistically predict the career performance of university professors. In certain instances, it even negatively affects faculty career performance. This pattern is evident in both China and the United States. Thus, despite the social, economic, political, and ideological disparities between the two nations, their remarkable similarity in the absence of a correlation between family background and career performance among academics is noteworthy. |
