Brown LD "The importance of circulating and presenting manuscripts: Evidence from the accounting literature" ACCOUNTING REVIEW 80 (1). JAN 2005. p.55-83

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Lawrence D. Brown:  email: ldb at gsu.edu

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TITLE:          The importance of circulating and presenting manuscripts:
                Evidence from the accounting literature (Article, English)

AUTHOR:         Brown, LD

SOURCE:         ACCOUNTING REVIEW 80 (1). JAN 2005. p.55-83 AMER
                ACCOUNTING ASSOC, SARASOTA




ABSTRACT:       Editors exhort authors to circulate and present their
working papers to colleagues before submitting them to journals
(Zimmerman 1989; Green et al. 2002). Authors heeding such advice are said
to increase the likelihood of getting their work published and making
their research, once published, more influential (Zimmerman 1989). While
evidence regarding these matters is of keen importance to authors,
editors, and administrators, no research exists showing that circulating
and presenting manuscripts increases their probability of being accepted
in accounting journals or, when published, their influence on stimulating
other research. I present such evidence by perusing acknowledgments in
premier accounting journals. I examine the relation between circulating
and presenting manuscripts and the probability of acceptance by relating
acknowledgments of 305 papers submitted to The Accounting Review during
June 2002-May 2003 to the editor's reject versus revise and resubmit
decision. I examine the relation between circulating and presenting
manuscripts and an article's influence by relating the acknowledgments in
256 articles published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting
Research, and Journal of Accounting and Economics to citations to these
articles. My two analyses of acknowledgments to institutions,
conferences, and individuals yield similar results. I find that papers
presented at more workshops are more likely to be invited back to The
Accounting Review, and that papers published in The Accounting Review,
Journal of Accounting and Economics, or Journal of Accounting Research
generate more citations if they were presented previously at more
workshops.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: LD Brown, Georgia State Univ, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA