Inducing structural change in academic accounting research

Wilkinson, Brett; Durden, Chris

doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2014.03.002

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“…They found little engagement with globally important issues, including the relationship between business and war, or workplace exploitation, the environment and collective representation in the workplace. More recently, Wilkinson and Durden (2015) have noted what they describe as 'stagnation' in accounting research, due to its ongoing fetishization of positivist methodologies and functionalist perspectives, preoccupations institutionalized by a deference to supposedly leading US journals. Are leadership studies that different?…”

Section: The Critical Ethos Of Leadershipmentioning

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Some announcements, reaffirming the critical ethos of Leadership, and what we look for in submissions

Tourish

2015

Leadership

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This editorial begins with a number of announcements and then considers how the journal and the community of scholars who edit it, write for it, review for it and read it can continue to collectively move it forward. I hope this gives contributors a clearer idea of the journal's orientation, and in doing so offers some useful insights into how authors might improve their chances of a paper being published in Leadership.We start with news of an editorial transition. Brad Jackson, my co-editor for over the past year, has decided to step down from this role. Brad has been Head of the School of Government at Victoria University since the beginning of 2014. He has concluded that it is impossible for him to do so while continuing to support Leadership in the way that he would like. I want to acknowledge Brad's huge contribution to the journal, thank him for his work and wish him well in his current role. Brad will continue to serve the journal as an Associate Editor. Victoria University of Wellington will continue to serve as administrative host for the journal with Amanda Cunningham acting as our Editorial Coordinator. Now for some better news. I am delighted to announce that Professor Jackie Ford from Bradford University School of Management has agreed to join us as an Associate Editor. Jackie has published frequently in our journal and provided consistently high quality reviews over the years. She joins our excellent team of Michelle Bligh, Richard Bolden, Brigid Carroll, Donna Ladkin and now Brad Jackson. Each of our associate editors will be more directly involved in handling submissions, with responsibility for making final decisions on many of our papers. In welcoming Jackie to the team, I want to thank all of our AEs for their support over the past year. Without them, this journal would not be as remotely well placed as it now is.A reflection of our progress is that we are receiving a growing volume of papers to review. In 2014, submissions increased by 31% on the previous year. Our acceptance rate is 14%. Clearly, many authors have come to see Leadership as a high quality outlet where they are delighted to publish their work. The journal is also attracting more and more readers.

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Section: The Critical Ethos Of Leadershipmentioning

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Some announcements, reaffirming the critical ethos of Leadership, and what we look for in submissions

Tourish

2015

Leadership

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“…that meaningfully affected accounting standard-setting and securities regulation' [59] (p. 1). Over the next two and half decades since 1991, many have argued that the research practice gap in accounting and business schools has widened [7,22,35,[60][61][62][63][64].…”

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Abundant Publications but Minuscule Impact: The Irrelevance of Academic Accounting Research on Practice and the Profession

Fraser

Sheehy

2020

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Criticism about the practical usefulness of academic accounting research produced in university business schools has been growing for some time. Due to accounting being an applied social science, many stakeholders question the relevance and value of research published in accounting journals to the accounting profession, practitioners and society in general. This paper highlights the various areas of criticism and discusses factors which underline the issue. While most of the criticism is anecdotal, this study sets about to empirically explore practitioners’ perception of academia, and research published in academic accounting journals. To better understand the situation in accounting, a comparison of two other applied academic disciplines is undertaken, involving medical and engineering practitioners. The study found that for accounting there were major differences in the sourcing of information, and significant differences between the other two applied fields with respect to the utilisation and the need for academic material. The findings lead to the conclusion that academic accounting researchers are now nearly totally divorced from the real-world profession of accounting. If we were to take a singular view on the purpose of academic accounting research, then the current situation could leave accounting researchers very vulnerable to adverse decisions with respect to the allocation of future government funding. The conclusions of this paper propose a series of thought-provoking questions about the current state of accounting research, in the hope that it will stimulate debate and generate responses from the accounting community and other stakeholders.

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“…Most related literature reviews have explored the humongous research to catch the theoretical trends, but ignore deeply analyzing the gap between academic research and practice [33,34]. As indicated by the empirical evaluation on the usefulness of academic research to practitioners, in particular, business schools' research has limited impact on business practitioners and makes limited contribution for practice, although a number of scholars strive to reduce the research and practice gap [33,34]. Therefore, in this review, centering on the practical 17 SDGs for the sustainability of the U. N., we compared the achieved and untouched topics to find the gap between academic research and practice in Section 5.…”

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Visualizing Sustainability Research in Business and Management (1990–2019) and Emerging Topics: A Large-Scale Bibliometric Analysis

Jia

Wei

2019

Sustainability

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While researchers from many disciplines are increasingly interested in studying issues related to sustainability, few studies have presented a holistic view of sustainability from the perspectives of business and management. This bibliometric study quantitatively analyzed a big data set of 30 years of sustainability research (1990–2019), consisting of 37,322 publications and 1,199,398 cited references, visualizing major topics, dynamic evolution, and emerging development. The decade-by-decade in-depth analysis shows a clear shift from a nearly exclusive focus on economic growth and consumption to all three pillars of sustainability, i.e., economic growth, social development, and environmental protection. Highlighting the differences between United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and the popular research topics from academia, our analysis uncovers research gaps and suggests future research directions for sustainability researchers and practitioners.

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Inducing structural change in academic accounting research

Cited by 44 publications

References 38 publications

Some announcements, reaffirming the critical ethos of Leadership, and what we look for in submissions

Some announcements, reaffirming the critical ethos of Leadership, and what we look for in submissions

Abundant Publications but Minuscule Impact: The Irrelevance of Academic Accounting Research on Practice and the Profession

Visualizing Sustainability Research in Business and Management (1990–2019) and Emerging Topics: A Large-Scale Bibliometric Analysis

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