Golf, networking, and accounting education: A gendered approach

Lorraine Lee, Allison Evans and Tom Downen

Journal of Accounting Education, 2020, vol. 52, issue C

Abstract: Networking through golf is recognized in the business world as one possible component of professional development. After documenting an underrepresentation of females during the annual departmental golf outing at a regional public university, we developed this study using theaction research methodology to measure the success of various iterations of a student-golf program created in response to this gender diversity gap.The motivation behind implementation of the program is to train more female students in this non-traditional skillset because it may otherwise prove as a limitation to important networking opportunities that may hinder those individuals’ success in public accounting.Using various structures of the Golf Links program, we find a tradeoff between more thoroughly developing the skillset of a small number of students as compared to providing limited instruction to a larger number of students. Given the feedback from accounting professionals suggesting that non-golfers do not see the networking value in learning golf, we find that providing a brief introduction to the sport to a wider number of students may be more effective in overcoming that hurdle and incentivizing students to pursue golf on their own as a means of professional networking.

Keywords: Professional development; Networking; Gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jaccedu.2020.100681

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