A Quantitative Analysis Of AIS Professor Compensation

Abstract

Much research has been published related to compensation in major academic fields such as finance and economics, however little attention has been paid to Accounting Information Systems (AIS). Conspicuously absent from the literature are in-depth studies of faculty compensation and its relationship to research productivity for AIS faculty. This study examines compensation, rank and publication data collected from members of the American Accounting Association. Members of the Information Systems section and the Emerging Technology/Artificial Intelligence section were surveyed. The relationships between compensation and its possible determinants such as research productivity and institutional accreditation are reported as well as analyzed. We find that compensation is significantly correlated with professors’ profiles as well as the school profile where the professor is employed.