Changes: the effect of affirmative action on the recruitment of accounting professors

The purpose of the paper is to examine the effect of affirmative action and equal employment opportunity legislation on the recruitment process for accounting professors. Specifically, this paper examines the effect of affirmative action on the availability of information concerning open positions for accounting professors. Placement advertisements in The Accounting Review were examined for a 40-year period starting in 1956. Results indicate that affirmative action and equal employment opportunity legislation dramatically affected job market advertising. Significant changes in the number of positions posted, the wording of the advertisements, and the type of schools advertising were noted following passage of this legislation.
INTRODUCTION In 1996. newly minted PhDs and ABDs looking for tenure-track accounting positions in academia commonly turned to the 'Placement Information' section of The Accounting Review. The October 1996 issue, [...]