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
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Length: 14 pages Date of creation: 1996 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:fth:sotoam:96-124
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