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Selecting from the extensive range of research methodologies remains a challenge, not least for those in accounting. Covering a wide selection of qualitative methodological issues, research strategies and methods, this new edition provides an essential guide to the choice and execution of qualitative research approaches in this field.
List of contents
Part I: Introduction 1. Researching Everyday Accounting Practice: Epistemological Debate
Part II: Worldviews and Paradigms 2. Social Constructionist Research in Accounting: A Reflection on the Accounting Profession 3. Interpretive Research in Accounting: Past, Present and Future 4. The research-researched relationship and its effects in interpretive accounting research 5. Critical Studies in Accounting: Researching the Exercise of Power 6. Translation in Accounting Research 7. Phenomenology and research in accounting (and related practices): a critical appreciation 8. Historiography in Accounting Research 9. Grounded Theory Approach to Accounting Studies: Overview of Principles, Assumptions and Methods 10. Visual Methodologies for Accounting and Accountability 11. Appreciative Inquiry for Accounting Research
Part III: Methodologies and Strategies 12. Ethnography, Ethnomethodology and Anthropology Studies in Accounting 13. Netnography for Accounting and Accountability Research 14. The case for counter-accounts: Evidence from scholarship and research practice 15. Case Studies in Accounting Research 16. Emergence of Narrative Approaches in Social Sciences and in Accounting Research 17. Oral History 18. Autoethnography In Accounting Research 19. Action Research in Accounting 20. Discourse Analysis in Accounting Research 21. An Introduction to Interventionist Research in Accounting 22. Reflexivity in Accounting Research
Part IV: Data collection and analysis 23. Mixed Methods in Contemporary Accounting Research 24. Field Interviews: Process and Analysis 25. Participant Observation at the Coalface 26. Focus Group Discussions 27. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: An overview 28. Qualitative Data Management and Analysis Software 29. Credibility and Authenticity in Qualitative Accounting Research
Part V: Experiencing qualitative field research: Personal reflections 30. A Case Study Research Project: Personal Reflections 31. Etics, Emics and Ethnomethodology in Accounting Research 32. Experiencing autoethnography during a PhD journey and beyond: personal reflection and lessons for future research 33. A difference that makes no difference is no difference: Virtual Field Interviews in Accounting Research 34. Ethical Considerations in Qualitative Research: Personal Experiences from The Field 35. Embracing qualitative research in a "hostile" environment? Voices from the field of qualitative accounting
About the author
Zahirul Hoque is a Professor of Accounting at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Lee D. Parker is a Research Professor of Accounting at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Kathryn Haynes is an Emerita Professor of Accounting at Northumbria University, UK.
