Effectiveness of Qualitative Research in Enhancing Accounting Sciences: A Systematic Review of Accounting Sciences Journals

The study focused on the effectiveness of adopting qualitative research in enhancing accounting sciences knowledge. Literature related to the study was adopted. The grounded theory guided the study by providing a generalization view of conducting research studies. The main objectives of the study were to establish the factors promoting the adoption and implementing of qualitative research strategies in accounting sciences, analyze the benefits and challenges of qualitative research strategies in solving accounting sciences problems and to establish mitigatory measures to overcome challenges adopting and implementing qualitative researches in accounting sciences. The study adopted systematic literature review by adopting bibliometric analysis of journals relating to accounting sciences. Bib excel version 2020 and VOS viewer software were used. Exploratory research design was adopted to explore knowledge on the effectiveness of qualitative research strategies in accounting sciences. The data was analyzed through a number of citations of co-authors and the key words relating to the current topic of study were utilized. The results of the study revealed that, contemporary researchers in the fielding of accounting sciences are appreciating the adoption of qualitative researches than the traditional accounting researchers.