A LONGITUDINAL MODEL OF SPONSORSHIP AND CAREER SUCCESS: A STUDY OF INDUSTRIAL-ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGISTS

• Published in: Personnel psychology Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 271 - 303
• Main Authors: JUDGE, TIMOTHY A., KAMMEYER-MUELLER, JOHN, BRETZ, ROBERT D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2004
• Subjects: Academic Achievement; Academic careers; Advisors; Careers; Corporate sponsorship; Decision making; Doctoral Programs; Graduate students; Hypotheses; Individual Characteristics; Industrial Psychology; Job Applicants; Longitudinal studies; Mentors; Productivity; Professional Recognition; Psychologists; Reputation; Resistance (Psychology); Social networks; Social Status; Social Structure; Society; Socioeconomic Background; Sociology; Studies; Success; Universalism; Variables; United States > US
• ISSN: 0031-5826; 1744-6570
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6570.2004.tb02492.x

Drawing from research on the sociology of science, we hypothesized a model of academic career success in an effort to extend research on particularistic and universalistic influences on career success. Results, based on a sample of 154 members of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, provided support for the hypothesized model. Specifically, doctoral program prestige and publications as a PhD student influenced prestige of the first job. Furthermore, these 2 variables—along with chair publications—influenced career publications, prestige of the first job and career publications influenced extrinsic success (a composite variable comprised of rank, salary, longitudinal citation rates, prestige of current job, fellowships, and presence on editorial boards), and extrinsic success influenced intrinsic career success (career satisfaction). The results further suggest that individual performance has a stronger influence on the career success of industrial‐organizational psychologists than do social networks.