...Martin R.W. Hiebl Purpose This paper aims to identify specific challenges and opportunities when crafting literature reviews of qualitative accounting research. In addition, it offers potential remedies to frequent challenges when conducting such reviews. Design/methodology/approach This piece...

...Sina K. Feldermann; Martin R.W. Hiebl Purpose This paper aims to examine the current practice of reporting on translation issues in qualitative, interdisciplinary accounting research. Based on an analysis of the methodological consideration of the translation of quotations from non-English...

... that perspective it is one of the few papers in all of accounting research that has used participant observation as a research method. Qualitative research Research paradigms Accounting research While the dominant research methodologies employed by most North American accounting researchers over...

...Peter Massingham; Rada Massingham; Kieren Diment Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the usefulness of Q Methodology for business research, as an alternative technique for accounting researchers. Design/methodology/approach Q Methodology is an innovative technique that provides...

...Jennifer Grafton; Anna M Lillis; Eeva‐Mari Ihantola; Lili‐Anne Kihn Purpose The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the threats to quality in mixed methods accounting research, wherein quantitative and qualitative approaches are combined in data collection, analysis and interpretation...

... time period offer the reader useful insights on management accounting research and theory. A considerable number of scholars have conducted reviews on management accounting and control research, within a particular timeframe and scope [1] . The purpose of this paper is to extend these reviews...

...Larissa von Alberti‐Alhtaybat; Khaldoon Al‐Htaybat Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a personal, reflective account of applying grounded theory, in particular Glaser's approach, in accounting research. It seeks to reduce barriers to adopting the grounded theory approach. Design...

...Sylvain Durocher Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the polyphonic debate on the future of interpretive accounting research (IAR) by addressing the issues of cumulative knowledge and embedment of IAR in wider literatures. Design/methodology/approach McCracken's method...

...Bruce Gurd Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a rejoinder to Joannidès and Berland's comment on Gurd's paper on the use of grounded theory (GT) in interpretive accounting research, re‐establishing the basics of GT. Design/methodology/approach A refutation by argument. Findings...

.../approach The paper adopts a non‐positivist perspective on the writing/authoring of QMAFR. The paper illustrates its arguments by analysing how the field is written/authored in two well‐known examples of qualitative management accounting research, using Golden‐Biddle and Locke's framework as a way...

...Sven Modell; Chris Humphrey; Ali M. Elharidy; Brian Nicholson; Robert W. Scapens Purpose The aim of this paper is to assess and explain the role of grounded theory (GT) in interpretive management accounting research (IMAR) and seeks to answer the question: can interpretive researchers use GT...

... is an analytical review of the research literature. It uses four fundamental canons of grounded theory to analyze accounting research. Findings Some accounting researchers who have used the label “grounded theory” for their research have misunderstood or not applied the core canons of grounded theory...

... tendencies in qualitative accounting research. Findings The paper argues that qualitative research involves some balancing acts between, on the one hand, pragmatic and aesthetic aspects and, on the other, the necessary steps for establishing trust in a particular piece of research. The authors explicate...

... Northcott and Bill Doolin can be contacted at: qram@aut.ac.nz © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Qualitative research Accounting research Management research QRAM published its first two issues in 2004. In the 11 issues published since then, 50 papers have now appeared...

... stakeholders involved in its use are. It also suggests a number of issues associated with XBRL that require further investigation and research. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 XBRL Accounting research Technolgoy Online reporting ...

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