Purpose: This paper aims to present an understanding of what it means to infuse teaching with qualitative research and to introduce the papers in the special issue. Design/methodology/approach: This is an introductory essay that provides a brief overview and analysis of the ideas to be found in...

Purpose: This paper aims to present an understanding of what it means to infuse teaching with qualitative research and to introduce the papers in the special issue. Design/methodology/approach: This is an introductory essay that provides a brief overview and analysis of the ideas to be found in...

Why use social theory to study accounting? -- Locating accounting in the social world -- Structure, agency and accounting -- Power, inequality and resistance -- Space, time and change -- Writing and designing empirical research with social theory -- Future directions

pt. 1. Benchmarks for comparing farm performance -- pt. 2. Benchmarking for better practice in farming -- pt. 3. Environmental benchmarking in food and farming -- pt. 4. Benchmarking for best practice : innovative practice and future developments in food and farming.