Canadian academic accountants' productivity: A survey of 10 refereed publications, 1976–1989*

Richardson, Alan J.; Williams, John Joseph

doi:10.1111/j.1911-3846.1990.tb00815.x

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“…In Europe, therefore, unlike in the US, UK authors dominate. Finally, a study by Richardson and Williams (1990) lists leading Canadian institutions and individuals publishing in 10 refereed journals. The data suggest Canadian research is highly concentrated.…”

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International Publishing Patterns: An Investigation of Leading UK and US Accounting and Finance Journals

Jones¹,

Roberts²

2005

Business Fin & Account

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Research quality is often measured by the quality of the journals in which articles are published. This article looks at 1,867 articles published in six highly-rated UK and six highly-rated US academic journals from 1996 to 2000. The authors publishing in the UK journals come mainly from UK and US institutions, but just over a third come from other countries. However, almost ninety per cent of authors publishing in top US journals come from US institutions. Contributions from authors from institutions in non-English speaking countries in these top journals are rare. The implications of this research are that although accounting is growing increasingly international, academic research, especially in the top US journals remains stubbornly nationally-orientated. Copyright Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2005.

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International Publishing Patterns: An Investigation of Leading UK and US Accounting and Finance Journals

Jones¹,

Roberts²

2005

Business Fin & Account

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“…The questionnaire used in this study does have some methodological weaknesses that could be removed. In addition, the issue of journal reputation could be improved upon (Richardson and Williams [1990] was utilized; Brown and Huefner [ 1994] appeared later. Such studies have been criticized on a number of counts, including journal selection).…”

Section: "The University Accounting Professoriate In Canada" By Jean mentioning

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A Descriptive Profile of Intermediate Accounting Students*

Fortin¹,

Amernic²

1994

Contemporary Accting Res

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Based upon an acknowledgement that accounting education is best served if those who teach have a broad and deep understanding of their students, the paper adopts the view that education is a process of transformation. A student brings certain characteristics and life experiences to a university accounting program, interacts in various ways while progressing through the program, and ultimately graduates with certain abilities and skills, and perhaps some changed personal characteristics. This process of transformation is used as the basis for the paper's organizing framework, through which relevant accounting education literature is reviewed, including research related to students' demographic and physiological factors, cognitive and psychological factors, prior knowledge, the accounting program and students' concurrent life experiences, and the outcome of the accounting program.Based upon the organizing framework and attendant literature review, a questionnaire was developed and administered to intermediate accounting students at the eight participating case universities. The questionnaire had two parts: the first dealt with demographic and attitudinal information, and the second was the Jackson Personality Inventory (JPI). Results are reported comparing francophone and anglophone students, males and females, and also (for some of the data) comparing universities. The results show diversity amongst various groupings of intermediate accounting students on demographic and attitudinal variables, as well as on some scales of the JPI.Subject to this diversity of students, an aggregate student profile based upon the data was developed, in order to summarize the data captured in this study. The "average" or "typical" intermediate accounting student (who in 92.5 percent of the sample is an accounting major) is described as follows: a 20-21 year-old individual attending school full-time (being female in 52.2 percent of the cases), predominantly English or French speaking, single with no children, supported at least in part by parents (62.5 percent of students), by part-time work (40 percent), and by scholarships (22.4 percent) and loans (35.3 percent). The student finds accounting at least moderately interesting (83.8 percent), and also believes that accounting's role in society is at least somewhat important (77.5 percent).Interest and aptitude for the subject matter appear to be driving forces behind the student's choice of accounting as a major, with factors such as pay, advancement, job availability, job security, and task variety being important as well. Intrinsic work values such as independence in action and solving challenging problems (intellectual stimulation) are also key factors apparently motivating the student's choice of concentration. Nevertheless, the accounting major is not entirely certain or satisfied with his or her choice of major (58.4 percent of 16 Contemporary Accounting Research majors are certain or more, and 65.8 percent are satisfied or more). The student chose accounting as a major quite earl...

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“…Concerning economic research in Canada, Lucas (1995) and Davies, Kocher, and Sutter (2008) provide detailed analyses and find that Canadian university research output was ranked third in the world in the top ten economics journals during 1980-2000. Nevertheless, the relative scholarly output share of Canadian universities in economic research declined in the 1990s.In the disciplines of international business and information systems, Rugman (2008) offers a thorough qualitative discussion on the development of international business research in Canada since the 1970s, while Serenko, Cocosila, and Turel (2008) examine the citations of information system research articles collected in the conference proceedings of Administrative Sciences Association of Canada during 1974Canada during -2007 Concerning accounting research in Canada, Richardson and Williams (1990) examine the productivity of Canadian academic accountants through analyses of articles published in ten refereed journals between 1976 and 1989. In a later study, McConomy and Mathieu (2003) examine the research productivity of academic accountants at Canadian universities for the eleven-year period from 1990-2000.…”

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“…In a later study, McConomy and Mathieu (2003) examine the research productivity of academic accountants at Canadian universities for the eleven-year period from 1990-2000. Their analyses, like those in Richardson and Williams'(1990) study, were based on the top ten ranked refereed journals in accounting, auditing and taxation. As an extension of this line of studies, we use a broader set of journals to provide an up-to-date review of the accounting research productivity among Canadian higher education institutions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The lack of specific disciplinary focus makes the results overly general and less informative to various constituents; the short-interval conduct, on the other hand, limits the generalizability of the results. Richardson and Williams (1990) and McConomy and Mathieu (2003) analyze research productivity of Canadian accounting researchers using articles published in the top-ten accounting journals. Their studies are conducted in medium intervals between ten to fifteen years.…”

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Accounting Research by Canadian Higher Education Institutions: A Retrospective Assessment

Chan¹,

Tong²,

Zhang³

2012

IBR

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Canadian academic accountants' productivity: A survey of 10 refereed publications, 1976–1989*

Cited by 23 publications

References 5 publications

International Publishing Patterns: An Investigation of Leading UK and US Accounting and Finance Journals

International Publishing Patterns: An Investigation of Leading UK and US Accounting and Finance Journals

A Descriptive Profile of Intermediate Accounting Students*

Accounting Research by Canadian Higher Education Institutions: A Retrospective Assessment

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