What's Wrong with Management Accounting Research? The Potential of Ethnography

T. Ahrens

Working Papers from University of Southampton - Department of Accounting and Management Science

Abstract: 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 ahould 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.

Keywords: ACCOUNTING; INFORMATION; MANAGEMENT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M40 M41 M49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 1996
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