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Attracting The “Best And The Brightest”: An Empirical Assessment Of
Non-Doctoral Program Success In The Accounting Faculty Recruitment Wars
Timothy J. Fogarty, Case Western Reserve University
Brian Hogan, Case Western Reserve University
ABSTRACT. The shortage of accounting faculty in the USA is neither a temporary nor a trivial problem. This paper provides a description of the relative success of non-doctoral programs at securing an accounting faculty of choice. Using the logic that faculty from more prestigious doctoral programs possess more choice in the jobs they take, this paper accumulates the result of these decisions. Focusing on the non-doctoral sector, this paper provides a measure of how successful schools have been at recruiting a top-flight faculty. These descriptive results are shown to be considerably variable through time, but rather resistant to variations in measurement. Moreover, geographic proximity does not seem to be a strong alternative explanation. Finally, faculty location decisions that occur immediately after doctoral training and those later in academic careers are separated in their impact on schools’ ability to attract them.
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