The importance of being 'wordy': willingness to write and publication productivity among accounting academics

T. J. Fogarty and Susan Ravenscroft

Accounting Education, 1999, vol. 8, issue 3, 187-202

Abstract: Recent attention to institutional variables that underlie the publication productivity levels of academic accountants threatens to obscure the fact that research is conducted by individuals who bring differing levels of ability, motivation and interest to scholarship. This study introduces willingness to write as a new correlate of productivity. Using the population of PhDs in accounting from US universities with conferred degrees between 1986 and 1996 as a sample, the results show that willingness to write is significant in the explanation of publication productivity when this is measured in a variety of ways. In turn, willingness to write is explained by institutional status. However, the direction of these relationships needs to differentiate the type of publishing that the individual undertakes.

Keywords: Accounting Faculty; Faculty Research Productivity; Dissertations; Institutional Prestige; Academic Journals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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