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Purpose
The paper aims to provide a response to commentaries in this issue by Andrew Sayer, and Robert W. Scapens and ChunLei Yang on “Case studies and differentiated realities” a paper by Sue Llewellyn published in Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management Vol. 4 No. 1, 2007.
Design/methodology/approach
Discusses issues raised in the commentaries around “differentiated realities”, “pluralist ontology” and the “single reality” of social constructivism.
Findings
Reiterates an understanding of the idea of “differentiated realities” and discusses the methodological implications that arise from it.
Originality/value
Clarifies Llewellyn's original discussion of differentiated realities and case studies.
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2008
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