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Academic elite in accounting: linkages among top-ranked graduate programs
1Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Emporia State University, KS 66801, USA. bairjeff@emporia.edu
Psychological Reports
|July 2, 2002
Abstract:
The 10 top-ranked graduate programs in accounting, based on a national survey of deans and top administrators, were linked to one another by hiring in the programs one another's graduates. Almost one-half (45.9%) of the faculty members in these 10 programs (N = 172) had graduated from one of these 10 programs. It is suggested that this linkage helps these programs to maintain and enhance their prestige.