Capturing the wisdom of the field: trends, opportunities, and threats in positivist field study research

Jennifer Grafton and Anne M. Lillis

Chapter 19 in Research Handbook on Performance Measurement for Management Control, 2024, pp 354-370 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this chapter, we consider the implications of big data and technology for positivist field research in performance measurement. These trends are changing the performance measurement questions we can study, as well as how we can study them, as they increase the availability of data sources and advance the capabilities of computer-assisted data analysis. We argue that these trends bias against field research in general and the qualitative analysis of data specifically, in that they make it more costly for researchers. We further argue that qualitative field data and qualitative analysis and interpretation of field data are as truly central as ever to extracting the “wisdom of the field.” It remains critical as a way of informing, building, and refining theory, questioning underlying findings based on these new data sources, challenging the interpretation of computer-based, quantified approaches to the analysis of these data, and identifying questions of importance to practice.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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