Abstract Prior research suggests that publication requirements for accounting faculty promotions may be increasing. However, academics and practitioners have questioned the importance assigned to research in faculty evaluations and have called for increased emphasis on teaching. This paper examines the publication productivity of accounting faculty promoted to associate professor at AACSB-accredited institutions during the eight-year period 1987 to 1994. The results indicate some decline in the publication productivity of faculty promoted at doctoral institutions. In contrast, the publication, productivity of faculty promoted in nondoctoral institutions increased in the 1990s when compared to the later years of the 1980s. Such increases were observed in public and private nondoctoral schools, with and without (1) a masters' program in accounting, and (2) doctoral programs in other professional areas, such as business (other than accounting) or engineering. The results should be of interest to junior accounting faculty in planning their research agenda, and to other faculty and administrators in evaluating candidates for promotion and tenure.
Read et al. (Fri,) studied this question.