Signaling effects of scholarly profiles – The editorial teams of North American accounting association journals

Endenich, Christoph; Trapp, Rouven

doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2017.02.004

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“…We position this paper within the literature exploring, explaining, and problematising the boundaries and scope of business schools' scholarly fields in general and management accounting in particular. More specifically, we depart from the research on the use and application of journals as a focal point and particularly the debate on diversity, see for instance Gendron (2008Gendron ( , 2018, Annisette et al (2018), and Endenich and Trapp (2018). Diversity can be viewed as the application of different methodological angles and theoretical lenses, conceptual or empirical research approaches, as well as variety in the topics themselves.…”

Section: Diversity In Management Accounting Researchmentioning

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A long-term bibliometric analysis of journals influencing management accounting and control research

Balstad

Berg

2019

J Manag Control

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This paper explores which journals publish management accounting research and which sources are most cited in these journals. We apply bibliometric methods based on citation data from Web of Science and Scopus. Quantitatively, we examined the boundaries of management accounting by analysing 506,753 and 1,075,838 cited references from each respective database in the timespans 1945-2018 and 1960-2018 and found that the five most cited journals represent 6.5% and 4.7% of the total citations. The most cited journal in both Web of Science and Scopus is AOS, followed by MAR. The findings are discussed in light of diversity, and the article will claim that the boundaries of management accounting research are not subject to severe constraints. Google Scholar was initially chosen alongside Web of Science and Scopus, but, among other challenges, Google Scholar does not provide comparable citation data. Therefore, issues concerning using citation data and databases are also thoroughly discussed.

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Section: Diversity In Management Accounting Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

A long-term bibliometric analysis of journals influencing management accounting and control research

Balstad

Berg

2019

J Manag Control

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“…For a study that found an openness to diverse research methods being signaled by CAR 's editorial team, see Endenich and Trapp (). See also the comments on this latter paper in the same special issue on “Research Diversity and Hierarchies in Accounting Journals” in Critical Perspectives on Accounting .…”

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A Personal View of the Evolution of the Accounting Professoriate

Zeff

2019

Accounting Perspectives

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“…Rather, the journal uses the word as it relates to 'important'. 47 In his commentary to Endenich & Trapp's (2018) study, Salterio (2018, p. 80), the past editor in-chief of the CAR and co-responsible for its diversification strategy, confirms that they 'explicitly signalled that openness through editorial appointments', among various other methods. In contrast, Kachelmeier (2018, p. 64), past editor of TAR, argues that the composition of TAR's editorial team reflects the past submission patterns to the journal and that 'he did not attempt to dictate to the community what he wanted to see'.…”

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“…Indeed, where the 'elite' outlets provide legitimacy to a narrow research agenda, it is within their power to provide positive contributions to the field by, for example, embracing work that differs methodologically, that highlights different theoretical developments, or that brings new insights from other fields such as psychology or history more fully than is currently the case. For instance, Endenich & Trapp (2018) in their analysis of the scholarly profiles of the editorial teams of the Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR, the journal of the Canadian Accounting Association) and The Accounting Review (TAR, the journal of the American Accounting Association), find that editors can send strong signals to the research community through the makeup and appointment of their editorial team. The authors argue that the increased quantitative empirical focus of TAR's editorial team signals to the research community that such research is the 'acceptable' way of doing research and hence leads to increased submissions of quantitative empirical studies, as empirically documented by the authors.…”

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Why does research in finance have so little impact?

Brooks

Fenton

Schopohl

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Critical Perspectives on Accounting

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The quantity of finance research has grown enormously over the past two decades, yet questions remain over its breadth and ability to benefit the economy and society beyond academia. Using multisource data, we argue that individual and institutional incentives have fostered insularity and a consequent homogeneity in the discipline. We examine the characteristics of research that is published and cited in the leading field journals in finance, arguing that the work has become abstract and unrelated to real world issues. The work published in the 'top' journals makes increasing use of US data, even where the researchers are drawn from different countries. Using information from impact assessment, publication patterns, and grant capture, we illustrate that this narrow agenda lacks relevance to the financial services sector, the economy or wider society compared to other areas of business and management research. In particular, we highlight the relative absence of research on ethics in academic finance and discuss the likely consequences for the discipline including its relevance to society. P a g e | 1 citation database of peer-reviewed academic studies, 4 and funding data from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, the main UK government funding body for social science research).The two UK research evaluation exercises both provided a panel-based assessment of the 'quality' of research undertaken by UK higher education institutions separately for each subject (referred to as a panel, or more accurately in RAE / REF parlance as a sub-panel). Data from the RAE2008 and REF2014 provide snapshots at those specific points in time of the panels' assessments of the 'quality' of work being undertaken in UK universities over the previous six years in each case (2002-2007 and 2008-2013 respectively). The RAE / REF only take place periodically and thus data are only available for these specific intervals. While the work being assessed comprises publications in (peer-reviewed) journals, monographs, book chapters and working papers, our analysis concentrates on those outputs submitted to the RAE/REF that represent publications in peer-reviewed journals. The nature and purpose of the RAE and REF are summarised nicely in Brooks et al. (2014, p. 991): 'The RAE [and REF are] evaluation[s] of the 'quality'

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Signaling effects of scholarly profiles – The editorial teams of North American accounting association journals

Cited by 52 publications

References 90 publications

A long-term bibliometric analysis of journals influencing management accounting and control research

A long-term bibliometric analysis of journals influencing management accounting and control research

A Personal View of the Evolution of the Accounting Professoriate

Why does research in finance have so little impact?

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