Publication Records of Faculty Promoted to Professor: Evidence from the UK Accounting and Finance Academic Community

Beattie, Vivien; Goodacre, Alan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1639882

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“…Overall, our results on gender support gender diversity in boards of accounting journals, and contradict evidence from prior accounting research which has noted that women's careers suffer from inequality in the academic community (Rama et al, 1997;Collins et al, 1998;Broadbent and Kirkham, 2008;Beattie and Goodacre, 2012). Together, these results suggest once women reach senior positions, they appear to have the same opportunities as their male colleagues for journal board appointments.…”

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“…Ultimately, outcomes of the two perspectives are enmeshed and societal diversity practices may create value effects while the pursuit of value diversity may contribute to and improve equality and fairness. In contrast to these theoretical positions, however, inequalities are persistent in society, the accounting profession and academia, and theories such as social characteristics theory, networking theory and elitism appear to play an intervening role (Rama et al, 1997;Buckless et al, 1998;Collins et al, 1998;Carnegie et al, 2003;Brinn and Jones 2008;Broadbent and Kirkham, 2008;Beattie and Goodacre, 2012). In this light, we predict that:…”

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“…Gender has been extensively explored in the accounting profession (Broadbent and Kirkham, 2008;Khalifa, 2013) and accounting research (Kuasirikun, 2011). By contrast, fewer studies have examined gender in accounting academia and emphasis has been at faculty level (Rama et al, 1997;Buckless et al, 1998;Collins et al 1998;Beattie and Goodacre, 2012). This study contributes to the wider gender focus in the accounting academy through its emphasis on editorial board membership.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…To determine journal ranking, we used the Journal Quality Guide produced by the UK ABS (Harvey et al, 2010). This ranking system, developed for use in the UK academic market, has been used in prior research (see, for example, Beattie and Goodacre, 2012) and has become the accepted system to which UK university managers and individual scholars work. Although much criticised and not necessarily accurate for all journals (Hoepner and Unerman, 2012), it provides proxy information of aggregate journal quality and maintains a level of objectivity in classification.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These results contradict our earlier findings on gender equality at the highest level of board editorship. They may reflect the fact that members are generally invited to join editorial boards while appointments to editorship are more reflective of a willingness to put oneself forward, which men appear to be better at (King et al, 2011;Beattie and Goodacre, 2012).…”

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Editorial boards of accounting journals: gender diversity and internationalisation

Dhanani¹,

Jones²

2017

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General rightsThis document is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. Full terms of use are available: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/pure/about/ebr-terms 1 Editorial Boards of Accounting Journals: Gender Diversity and Internationalisation Abstract Purpose: Editorial boards of academic journals represent a key institutional mechanism in the governance and functioning of the academic community. Board members play an important role in knowledge production and development of the discipline. This study examines the diversity characteristics of boards of accounting journals.Design: Drawing on a diversity framework that distinguishes between societal diversity and value of diversity, the paper examines two board characteristics: gender diversity and internationalisation. Moreover, it examines the influence of three journal and two editor characteristics on board diversity and analyses trends over time.Findings: On gender, overall board trends appear to reflect both societal diversity and value of diversity: boards reflect the gender profile of senior academics. Further, female board representation has improved over time, is consistent across different countries, and 'gendered' sub-disciplines attract a relatively higher female board representation. However, inequities persist at the highest level: women are under-represented as editors and on boards of higher ranked journals. On internationalisation, once again overall trends broadly reflect societal diversity and value at diversity. However, boards of UK and Australian and 2* and 3* journals are significantly more international than their US and 4* counterparts, respectively. Further, the representation of international scholars has witnessed a modest rise over time. Finally, editor gender and change in editor play an intervening role in the gender and international characteristics of boards, respectively.Originality: Drawing on the diversity framework, this study is the first to comprehensively examine gender diversity and internationalisation of accounting boards.

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Accounting and finance in UK universities: Academic labour, shortages and strategies

Smith

Urquhart

2018

The British Accounting Review

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This paper contributes to the literature on change in the higher education sector arising from massification, increased political control, international mobility and competition. Drawing on various data sources and labour shortage models, it considers academic labour in UK accounting and finance academia over the period 2000 to 2012. A disequilibrium between supply and demand is evidenced through the identification of recruitment problems, unfilled vacancies, and retirements. The impact of research assessment on faculty backgrounds is shown to result in inadequate supply of faculty with the required skills. Strategic responses to labour shortages include: increased recruitment efforts, early promotions, enhanced remuneration and reducing restrictions on occupational entry. The consequences and future implications of shortages and strategies are considered. In particular, the decoupling of research and teaching in accounting is challenging the future existence of accounting as an academic discipline. The current generation of accounting academics are also under threatif they neither excel at research nor are professionally-qualified they risk becoming undesirable.

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Higher education challenges: accounting and finance academia in a research-led teaching universities

Tawy

Abdel-Kader

2022

JFRA

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Purpose This paper aims to explore problems facing the recruitment of accounting and finance staff in research-led universities. “University accounting and finance (A&F) departments are experiencing difficulty in attracting and retaining suitably qualified staff” (Duff and Monk, 2006, p. 194). The literature identifies a number of reasons for the shortage of A&F phenomenon (Duff and Monk, 2006; Smith and Urquhart, 2018), including, the wide salary gap between academe and industry profession, difficulty in achieving publications in highly rated journal, high workload in teaching and marking due the limited number of A&F staff. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides new insights for the use of the grounded theory and how the theory has been generated from the semi-structured interviews. Findings This study has resulted in eight main challenges emerged, and a final theory has been generated. Implications of this research on business schools are valuable in research-led universities, the A&F staff recruitment strategies and the A&F research strategies in research-led universities. Originality/value The novelty of this research is based on the induction of the challenges that a business school faces, as a case study for a research-intensive teaching-led UK university, in recruiting new A and F appointees and retaining existing members of staff.

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Publication Records of Faculty Promoted to Professor: Evidence from the UK Accounting and Finance Academic Community

Cited by 4 publications

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Editorial boards of accounting journals: gender diversity and internationalisation

Editorial boards of accounting journals: gender diversity and internationalisation

Accounting and finance in UK universities: Academic labour, shortages and strategies

Higher education challenges: accounting and finance academia in a research-led teaching universities

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