The accounting educational literature is heavily focused on the characteristics and productivity of individual faculty members. The research contributions of these individuals are also aggregated by their departmental affiliations. However, very little work actually focuses upon how accounting departments are built and how they change over time. This perspective allows new questions to be asked formulated in terms of normative objectives/metrics for success. To evaluate progress, a detailed look at the major schools of one state are offered. The results offer new ways of evaluating the health of a discipline whose recent fortunes resemble the ups and downs of a rollercoaster and whose sustainability offers an open question in the face of inadequate doctoral student production, massive retirements and a well-stocked reserve army of casual labor. Implications for the management of academic departments are offered, and suggestions for future research are made.

What Makes a Successful Academic Accounting Department? a Multidimensional Longitudinal Analysis

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