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Karen Collins
Office Information
Office: 403 RBC
Phone: 610-758-3458
Fax: 610-758-6429
Email: kmc0@lehigh.edu

Courses Taught
  • Intermediate Accounting
  • Introduction to Business (coordinator)

Dr. Karen Collins is an associate professor of accounting. She has a Ph.D. in accounting from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include upward mobility of women in accounting, stress, quality of life issues, and ethnic diversity in the accounting profession. She has published articles in journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accountancy, Journal of Vocational Behavior and Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. In addition to teaching Intermediate Accounting, Karen coordinates the college's freshman-level Introduction to Business course. Her textbook, Exploring Business, was published this year by Prentice Hall.  The text introduces students to business through an integrated case study of Nike.

Research Interest

  • Work/home conflict and quality of life in public accounting
  • Upward mobility of women in accounting
  • Stress in public accounting
  • Ethnic diversity in the accounting profession

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