Management Accounting Research in Practice : Lessons Learned from an Interventionist Approach.

Many scholars have claimed that management accounting research has lost its pragmatic relevancy and interventionist research has been proposed as one way to produce theories with increased practical implications. In interventionist research, active participation in the field is regarded as an asset...

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Main Author: Suomala, Petri
Other Authors: Lyly-Yrjanainen, Jouni
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
Series:Routledge studies in accounting.
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Summary:Many scholars have claimed that management accounting research has lost its pragmatic relevancy and interventionist research has been proposed as one way to produce theories with increased practical implications. In interventionist research, active participation in the field is regarded as an asset rather than a liability. Despite the methodological debate on interventionist research, there is lack of empirical studies on how interventionist research actually helps to produce theories with such pragmatic relevance. The lack of empirical studies has, perhaps, resulted in a too narrow connotatio.
Physical Description:1 online resource (148 pages).
ISBN:9780203141205
0203141202
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.