The findings of theoretical investigations indicate that short-term auditor tenures may contribute to further audit report lags (ARLs). On the other hand, auditor industry expertise represents one of the determinant factors contributing to audit quality, which has been widely studied in numerous researches. Indeed, the better the quality of audit, the less delayed would be the audit report. As ...

T here is abundant research identifying external characteristics (race, gender, adolescent height) that affect labor market outcomes; for recent contributions, see Bertrand and Mullainathan (2004) and Persico, Postlewaite and Silverman (2004). In this paper, we focus on the effects of surname initials on professional outcomes in the academic labor market for economists. We begin our analysis wi...

Transitions from ‘industry’ to ‘academia’ represent a unique type of career change. Although such transitions are becoming increasingly common in Australian universities and beyond, there is no coherent framework for making sense of the multiple and intersecting factors involved in these inter-domain movements. This form of occupational transition challenges the traditional and increasingly out...

BACKGROUND Recruitment and retention of talent is central to the research performance of universities. Existing research shows that, while men are more likely than women to be promoted at the different stages of the academic career, no such difference is found when it comes to faculty retention rates. Current research on faculty retention, however, focuses on careers in science, technology, eng...

Characterizing the outcomes related to the phenotype of exceptional cognitive abilities has been feasible in recent years due to the availability of large samples of intellectually precocious adolescents identified by modern talent searches that have been followed-up longitudinally over multiple decades. The level and pattern of cognitive abilities, even among participants within the top 1% of ...

Experience and related concepts such as organizational tenure have been extensively researched in a variety of disciplines, such as human resources, counseling, entrepreneurship and venture capital. Within the information systems literature, the experience construct is regularly employed to categorize subjects as well as to explain differences in training, amongst other treatment outcomes. Desp...

having strong family support, and the support of an excellent set of mentors right through graduate school. I’m sure prejudice was there, but I did not see it influencing me directly until I became a faculty member. Then I often felt excluded from the decision-making process. Direct and derogatory comments to me were rare but happened. I had two children before tenure (and one after) and had di...

The use of quantitative methods in these processes is usually very limited. Given the stakes, and the boom of predictive analytics in the HR industry, we think it is time for a “Moneyball moment” in academia. Models predicting future outcomes can be used to support tenure decisions for early-career faculty. Moreover, our research finds that there’s strong potential for data-driven models to be ...

As previous research has shown, increasing research productivity in postsecondary institutions provides direct benefits to those institutions, departments, and individual faculty, and this research productivity is often dependent on institutional support. Understanding this relationship is important for doctoral students, as many enter academia after completing their studies, and their success ...

INTRODUCTION The relationship between growth in population and consumption and common-pool resources, particularly those that are governed under common-property institutions, has been the subject of lively academic debate. Researchers have long dwelled upon the global demographic transition and its effect on land-tenure and inheritance practices in different regions of the world. Boserup postul...