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What's wrong with management accounting research? The potential of ethnography

What's wrong with management accounting research? The potential of ethnography
What's wrong with management accounting research? The potential of ethnography
Recently, Hammersley (What's Wrong with Ethnography: Routledge: 1992) and Silverman ( Interpreting Qualitative Data: 1993) have de-emphasised the distinction between qualitative and quantitative research and suggested to integrate them to make social science more valid. I argue that the management accounting research should be aware of that debate, but that the resort to "little tables" which intersperse the qualitative analysis with simple, supportive statistics is a second best option for this field.
96-124
University of Southampton
Ahrens, T.
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Ahrens, T.
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Ahrens, T. (1996) What's wrong with management accounting research? The potential of ethnography (Discussion Papers in Accounting and Management Science, 96-124) Southampton, UK. University of Southampton 14pp.

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Recently, Hammersley (What's Wrong with Ethnography: Routledge: 1992) and Silverman ( Interpreting Qualitative Data: 1993) have de-emphasised the distinction between qualitative and quantitative research and suggested to integrate them to make social science more valid. I argue that the management accounting research should be aware of that debate, but that the resort to "little tables" which intersperse the qualitative analysis with simple, supportive statistics is a second best option for this field.

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Published date: 1996

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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/36143
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Author: T. Ahrens

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