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Sustainability of the accounting and finance academic profession: students’ and supervisors’ views about the PhD supervision process
Author(s) -
Unda Luisa A.,
Khosa Amrinder,
Burch Steven,
Wilkin Carla
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
accounting and finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-629X
pISSN - 0810-5391
DOI - 10.1111/acfi.12376
Subject(s) - autonomy , situational ethics , competence (human resources) , constructive , accounting , economic shortage , context (archaeology) , psychology , perception , process (computing) , public relations , political science , business , social psychology , geography , linguistics , philosophy , neuroscience , government (linguistics) , computer science , law , operating system , archaeology
This study explores the research supervisory practices of accounting and finance PhD students at Australian and New Zealand universities. Given documented faculty shortages in the accounting and finance disciplines, such investigation is timely and relevant. In the context of student engagement with their community of academic practice and their intrinsic motivation related to individual competence and autonomy, situational adjustments are inevitable and explain some differences between students’ perceptions and supervisors’ expectations. Our findings demonstrate that, despite general satisfaction with the PhD supervision process, students articulated concerns regarding constructive feedback and pastoral care provided by their supervisors, as well as guidance regarding data analysis/statistics.