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

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Ahrens, T.
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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 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.

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Paper provided by University of Southampton - Department of Accounting and Management Science in its series Papers with number 96-124.

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Date of creation: 1996
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Keywords: ACCOUNTING; INFORMATION; MANAGEMENT;

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