On Publishing and Reviews by CAReditorsteve: Blog Quotes and Notes

Steven E. Salterio Ph.D. FCA

#1 MBA outside USABusiness Week

200820062004

Editor (in-chief) Contemporary Accounting ResearchDirector CA-Queen’s Centre for Governance

Professor of Business PricewaterhouseCoopers/Tom O’Neill Faculty Fellow in Accounting

#2 in 2010 and 2002

Queen’s U is where?????

Kingston, ON

An eclectic career – only in Canada, eh?

BSC Mgmt. Acctg. ExperimentsTAR 2001, AOS 2002, TAR 2004

Auditor ExperimentsAOS 1996,

AOS 1997, AOS 2010, AOS 2010, BRIA 2011

Auditing Field Studies - PositivisticCAR 1995, CAR 1997 Accounting Consultations

Auditing Field Studies – InterpetivisticAOS 2008 (ACM neg.), AOS 2009 (FT100 MBA list audit)

Auditing Theory Based ACM Negotiation QuestionnairesJAR 2001, AJPT 2005, CAR 2007

Corporate Governance Board and Audit Comm.

Archival CAR 2001Audit Committee members

Experiment AJPT 2002

Earnings Quality/Internal Control Archival CAR 2011

Disclaimer

The views expressed in this presentation are my own and do not

represent official positions of Contemporary Accounting Research.

Official positions of Contemporary Accounting Research are arrived at only

the results of a double blind review process and expert Editor handling of

manuscripts.

AAA President Rayburn 2005-06

We need to encourage new ideas and innovative research. The best way to do that is to publish some of it. . . . . We must also increase both the

number and diversity of articles we publish, as well as publishing more highly innovative research.

. . . . Our top tier journals as a group project too narrow a view of the breadth and diversity of (what should count as) accounting research

Quotes from Presidential Speech AEN Fall 2005

AAA President Haka 2008-09

Accounting faculty down by 19% Other business school faculty up by 20% PhD production 140-150 a year Retirements in US 400-500 a year (although

GRSWWII has delayed this somewhat) The Accounting Academy at a Tipping Point:

Renewal or Decline? If we can all work together we can reverse the

documented decline in the accounting academy . . .Quotes from Presidential Speech AEN Fall 2008

Need to link 2005 to 2009

Research lack of diversity in our major journalsNOT drawing enough on the breathe and rigour of social sciences as a whole to study accounting

Tipping point: Renew or decline

Large scale economics based research has a

limited audience of potential doctoral students.

No wonder so many financial economics based

graduates never publish but concentrate on

teaching.

What’s the commonality?

Could it be that the perceived narrowness of our disciplines (especially in NA) could be reducing the chances of our replicating ourselves and going the way of the . . . . . .

Indeed, have we BOXed ourselves in????

What is the BOX?

What is the BOX?

Finance/Economics Psychology

Cognitive/jdmSocial/group

SociologyMainstreamCritical

HistoryTraditionalGenealogy

Financial Managerial Audit Tax Information systems

Modeling Markets based Archival Case study/observation/field

study Experiment Survey Text study

Is it Paradigm?

Is it Topic?

Is it Method?

Archival

Field Experiment

Experiment

Experimental methods

Behavioral Economics

Economic sociology

Archival

Analytical model

Archival

Experiential

Behavioral Finance

Behavioral Finance

Behavioral Finance

Audit experiment

IS and Analysts - Field

Archival: Valuation and markets

Analytical model and AIS

Mgmt. Acctg. Field Study

Archival

Table of Contents

 

1. Introduction – Observations about the Review Process

2. The review process

3. Acceptance rate stories

4. Review contents 

5. Negative outcomes - two types

6. Conclusion and the “Golden Review”

THANK YOU

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