Publication records of accounting and finance faculty promoted to professor: Evidence from the UK

Accounting and Business Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 197-231

  Beattie, Vivien ^a   Goodacre, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

academic identity; faculty; journals; productivity; professor; promotion; publication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861948466     PISSN: 00014788     EISSN: 21594260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2012.673159     Document Type: Article

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