Expanding Our Insights, Audiences, and Impact

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hermanson, Dana R.
• 署名单位: University System of Georgia; Kennesaw State University
• 刊物名称: ACCOUNTING REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4826; 1558-7967
• DOI: 10.2308/TAR-2025-0555
• 发表日期: 2026-03
• 页码: 447-453
• 关键词: research; insights; audiences; IMPACT; culture; top journals; COMMITTEE

摘要

This essay closely follows my American Accounting Association (AAA) Presidential Scholar Lecture delivered at the Annual Meeting in Chicago on August 5, 2025. In this essay, I discuss my approach to research: developing insights of various types, sharing those insights with diverse audiences, and trying to have a range of different impacts. Along the way, I discuss two elephants in the room: (1) our very cautious and conservative research culture, which constrains the insights we can offer; and (2) the emergence of a Top 6 journals only decision rule, which constrains the audiences we can reach. I hope that this essay will inspire readers to expand their insights, audiences, and impact, thereby increasing the enjoyment that they derive from an academic accounting career. I also hope that we can work together to address the two elephants in the room.