Business students’ perceptions of faculty attributes: a two-country cross-cultural comparison

Khayati, Amine; Ariail, Donald L.

doi:10.1080/09639284.2020.1719424

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“…Carcello (2008) worried that without professionally qualified faculty, the professoriate might be even further separated from the accounting profession they are training their students to join. Similar conclusions have been reached in other studies and reports (AACSB Doctoral Faculty Commission, 2003;Fernandes, 2006;Van Wyhe, 2007a; Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession, 2008; Khayati & Ariail, 2020).…”

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A Proposal for a Professional Doctorate in Accounting to Address the Accounting Faculty Shortage

Schiff,

Staples

2024

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“A combination of circumstances - the shortage of accounting faculty that is likely to increase sharply (given the average age of full-time tenured faculty) and a single pathway to a single terminal degree in accounting that cannot accommodate substantially more doctoral students - raises questions about how accounting educators will be able to fulfill their roles in teaching, research, and service in the future.” (Pathways Commission, 2012) This paper presents a proposal for a professional doctorate in accounting as a means of addressing the prevailing shortage of doctorally-qualified accounting faculty and several related issues within accounting higher education. Given recent pronouncements by the AACSB and the AAA and AICPA-sponsored Pathways Commission, the potential for such a degree program to help achieve these objectives appears promising. The nature and causes of the accounting faculty shortage, previous attempts to address this problem, and the role of professional experience are discussed first. This is followed by an overview of the professions, and of the ways in which professional doctorates have been implemented in law and medicine as prototypes for a professional doctorate in accounting. The paper concludes with a discussion of the benefits that can be achieved by implementing a professional doctorate in accounting.

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Section: The Relevance Of Professional Experiencesupporting

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A Proposal for a Professional Doctorate in Accounting to Address the Accounting Faculty Shortage

Schiff,

Staples

2024

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“…Our findings are relatively aligned with mainstream research emphasizing the positive association between career experience and employee’s predisposition to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities (Bignotti and le Roux, 2020 ; Shane, 2003 ). Khayati and Ariail ( 2020 ) found that teaching experience is what American and Tunisian university students value the most as faculty attribute. However, other studies pinpointed that propensity towards intrapreneurship is stronger among younger employees than older employees (Adachi & Hisada, 2016 ).…”

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“…Another striking finding from the present research shows that faculty with fewer scientific publications adopt a risk-taking posture and aim for higher outcomes even when they face considerable challenges. The study of Khayati and Ariail ( 2020 ) shows that the faculty research record is the least attractive for students in their search for quality education. Nonetheless, our results are opposed to those of Rubin and Callaghan (2019) who found a positive association between faculty research productivity and risk-taking propensity.…”

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Relationship between faculty characteristics and their entrepreneurial orientation in higher education institutions in Kuwait

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Considering intrapreneurship theory, this study aims to examine the extent to which the entrepreneurial orientation of faculty employed at Kuwaiti higher education institutions differ across their individual-level attributes. Faculty entrepreneurial orientation will be assessed at three levels, i.e., innovativeness, risk-taking, and proactivity. For this purpose, we surveyed a sample of 291 faculty from Kuwaiti colleges and universities. The core constructs were operationalized using scales validated in previous studies. The hypothesized relationships were tested using the structural equation modeling method. Our findings indicate that while female faculty are more proactive than men, males are innovative and risk-takers to some extent. Moreover, Ph.D. holders are more proactive and innovative than Master’s degree holders. The relationship between specialization and both innovativeness and risk-taking is significant only for business, but not for engineering. Teaching experience is more positively correlated with faculty proactivity. The number of scientific publications is negatively associated with faculty risk-taking propensity. Additionally, faculty who cumulated significant industry experience are proactive in identifying long-term opportunities and threats for their institutions. Having earned professional certifications is positively related to some aspects of innovativeness and proactivity. Finally, faculty who received their latest degree from a non-accredited institution are more active in realizing ideas at work.

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“…This calls for further investigation into how Arab culture may impact online learning. Specifically, in Tunisia, the establishment of a free and public higher education system has led to several challenges, including limited university budgets, overloaded classrooms, and a lack of basic student services and infrastructure [50], resulting in limited experiences of adopting online courses. Therefore, to facilitate online learning adoption in the Arab region generally, and in Tunisia specifically-by identifying the online learning variables and behaviors that Tunisian students perceive to be most important based on their Arab culture-this study explores how Tunisian students would behave and learn in an online learning process based on Hofstede's national cultural dimensions.…”

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Understanding Arab Students’ Behavioral Patterns in an Online Course: An Explanatory Study Based on Hofstede’s National Cultural Dimensions

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The provision of online learning experiences has been implemented by many universities worldwide to overcome several challenges, including inequality in education. However, this experience is still not a common approach in public universities in the Arab region. Furthermore, several research studies have pointed out that a country’s culture should be considered in order to enhance online learning, as students may behave differently based on their cultural backgrounds. Nevertheless, little is known about how a given culture may affect the learning behavioral patterns of students. Therefore, to better understand the cultural phenomenon and to enhance the adoption of online learning in the Arab region, this study aims to understand how an Arab culture may affect the online learning behaviors of students. Specifically, this study applies a lag sequential analysis (LSA) approach to understand the behavioral patterns of 116 students from Tunisia in a six-week online course. The study then further discusses the different learning behavior patterns based on the theoretical framework of Hofstede’s national cultural dimensions. The findings highlight that culture can affect how students engage in online learning discussions and how they maintain their learning performance online. The findings further indicate that online learning experiences may be beneficial for female students who experience social pressures in Arab cultures.

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Business students’ perceptions of faculty attributes: a two-country cross-cultural comparison

Cited by 9 publications

References 39 publications

A Proposal for a Professional Doctorate in Accounting to Address the Accounting Faculty Shortage

A Proposal for a Professional Doctorate in Accounting to Address the Accounting Faculty Shortage

Relationship between faculty characteristics and their entrepreneurial orientation in higher education institutions in Kuwait

Understanding Arab Students’ Behavioral Patterns in an Online Course: An Explanatory Study Based on Hofstede’s National Cultural Dimensions

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