The Accounting Review Vol. 46 No. 1 1971
The Account Discipline in 1999.
Abstract
Business and accounting education were obviously affected by a myriad of events and insights during the 1960's. Among them were the increasing pace of economic, technological, social, and political changes, the more explicit recognizing of education as being a lifelong process, and the mounting importance of the not-for-profit sector in the economy of the U.S. The impact of quantitative methods, behavioral sciences, and computers had been felt in teaching and research by all the traditional fields in business schools. Curricula had veered away from description and procedure and toward analysis and decision making. Above all, there was an interdisciplinary and integrating tendency in many business schools. The interdisciplinary thrust was felt most forcefully in the doctoral programs. They began to produce a new breed of faculty with broader and more rigorous educations and an ability and desire to apply new research techniques to the traditional business fields. In turn, the masters' and bachelors' programs were just beginning to be influenced by these fresh approaches.
- DOI
- 10.2308/tar-4482384
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-11
- Language
- en
- Sources
- openalex crossref