Ethnography has emerged as a potentially valuable empirical means of understanding how
and why accounting operates within organisations. However, its use in the accounting …

Management accounting researchers have borrowed eclectically from interpretive sociology.
Such borrowing has been associated with ethnographic studies of accounting in action in …

In this paper we argue that ethnographic or interpretive accounting research studies (EARS),
which have been marginalized by critical accounting theory studies (CATS) and rational …

Provides a response to the various calls which have been made by accounting researchers
for detailed case studies of accounting practice. Provides a methodological study rather than …

This article provides a discussion of the nature of constructivism as a research paradigm
within the context of accounting and presents a detailed example of a research study to …

Selecting from the wide range of research methodologies remains a dilemma for all
scholars, not least those looking to study the world of accounting. Both established and …

This essay is a response to the 'polyphonic debate'on interpretive accounting research
(Ahrens et al., this issue). The debate is considered first as a case study of the limitations of …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to review extant accounting research combining
institutional and critical theories to examine whether the paradigmatic tensions associated …

This essay addresses a deceptively simple question, namely, what is critical (accounting)
research? Reflecting on key experiences that led me to be increasingly involved in the …

Purpose Expanding on an invited talk at the 1st Paper Development Workshop of the
Qualitative Management Accounting Research Group, the purpose of this study is to offer …