The Accounting Review Vol. 50 No. 4 1975
The Organizational Set Prestige Ranking and Its Impact Upon Accounting Department Faculties.
Abstract
This article presents information on a study that provided insights into the organizational set prestige ranking. In this article, the authors examined the ramifications of an organizational set prestige ranking. It was found that 86% of the top twenty accounting department faculty members obtained their doctoral degrees from top twenty departments and that only slightly less than 4% of the Ph.D. graduates of non top twenty departments presently occupy faculty positions in the top twenty. When comparing the top five departments to the remaining top twenty departments, it was found that the top five hire their own graduates more frequently and employ on their faculties a greater proportion of other top five doctoral graduates than do the remaining members of the top twenty. These findings were found to be remarkably similar to those of scholar George R. Gross' earlier study of sociology departments. It will be interesting to observe whether any changes in these hiring practices will occur as a result of the continually increasing imbalance in the supply of and demand for accounting doctoral graduates.
- DOI
- 10.2308/tar-4493977
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 881-888
- Language
- en
- Sources
- openalex crossref