What it means to be an accounting professor: A concise career guide for doctoral students in accounting

Issues in Accounting Education

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 227-244

  Beyer, Brooke ^a   Herrmann, Don ^a   Meek, Gary K ^a   Rapley, Eric T ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Career guidance; Doctoral students; Publishing; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961074056     PISSN: 07393172     EISSN: 15587983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/iace.2010.25.2.227     Document Type: Article

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