qualitative accounting research. Findings – The paper argues that qualitative research involves some balancing acts between, on …/value – This paper highlights the need for greater attention to the many pragmatic aspects associated with qualitative accounting …

grounded theory research in accounting”, a paper by Gurd. Design/methodology/approach – Like Gurd, the authors conducted a …

Purpose – To introduce the special issue on organisational and accounting change. Design/methodology/approach – The … comprises a collection of papers written by members of the European Network for Research in Organisational and Accounting Change …

their effects on the role of accounting in the development of management control systems (MCSs). Design … accounting in the MCS. Findings – The results show that loose coupling between management control routines and formal accounting … the power of an individual over (and in) accounting can be constructed in the MCS. In addition, the discussion is linked …

on Accounting Performance Measures (RAPM) research. Based on a review of the existing literature, we identify a number of …

This paper is offered as a discussion piece. Drawing from personal research on management accounting change in the UK …, that the problems do not lie in management accounting research, which has flourished and produced a substantive body of …

environmental accounting research literature by, firstly, using the philosophies perceived to underlie research studies in order to … with these motivators included idealistic exhortation, mega-accounting theory, various forms of Triple Bottom Line reports … based on GR12002, AA1000, and SA8000, and environmental management accounting influenced by EMAS and ISO14000. To illustrate …

accounting in the media. Findings – The paper describes a variety of theoretical, methodological and empirical approaches used in … data that has informed accounting research, the use of media and media texts will remain a fertile area of research …. Practical implications – The portrayal of accounting in the media is of interest to accounting researchers, practitioners …

used in the accounting literature and to illustrate the application of a qualitative data analysis software tool in this … published in highly ranked accounting journals from 2000 to 2007. Findings – Accountability is a concept used in a variety of … become more precise over the period in question. Research limitations/implications – Since only 21 accounting journals are …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand if accounting is an un-Australian activity, contrasting the notion … technologies of accounting are negatively contrasted with the bush and the bushman. Since many Australians migrated from European … acknowledged debt to the Aboriginal. In this landscape the absence of both accounting and the associated rhetoric of economic …