In recent years a number of governments around the world have introduced assurance mechanisms for research, designed to increase the research productivity of higher education institutions. Such mechanisms have put pressure on accounting academics and schools to increase and improve their...

This paper is one of a set of two that report upon a meta-analysis of international studies from accounting and related business fields, published between 1988 and 2008, that examined factors influencing the research productivity of academics. In this current paper more than 70 factors were...