What is it about?
Field research involves an in-depth study of real-world phenomena through direct contact with organizational participants. It has been called for to better understand the contexts in which accounting operates, state-of-the-art accounting developments and accounting in action.
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Why is it important?
Further investigation into changes and trends in field research is needed to improve our understanding of what has happened in accounting research and how it has developed over time.
Perspectives
While working on this article, we read a very large body of accounting research and tried to offer a synthesis of it. Hope this article helps out to note how extensive field research in accounting has become!
Professor of Accounting Lili-Anne Kihn
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This page is a summary of: Changes in field-based research in accounting, Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change, October 2024, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jaoc-12-2023-0221.
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