The Routledge Companion to Qualitative Accounting Research Methods

Zahirul Hoque is Professor of Management Accounting and Public Sector and Head of the Department of Accounting at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Lee D. Parker is Distinguished Professor of Accounting at RMIT University, Australia and Research Professor of Accounting at the University of Glasgow, UK. Mark A. Covaleski is the Robert Beyer Professor of Managerial Accounting and Control at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Kathryn Haynes is Professor of Accounting and Dean of the Faculty of Business, Law and Politics at the University of Hull, UK.

Part I: Introduction



1. Researching Everyday Accounting Practice: Epistemological Debate

Mark A. Covaleski, Kathryn Haynes, Zahirul Hoque and Lee D. Parker

Part II: Worldviews and Paradigms



2. Social Constructionist Research in Accounting: A Reflection on the Accounting Profession

Mark A. Covaleski, Mark W. Dirsmith and Sajay Samuel



3. Interpretive Research In Accounting: Past, Present and Future

Kari Lukka and Sven Modell



4. Critical Studies in Accounting: Researching the Exercise of Power

Marcia Annisette and Christine Cooper



5. Historiography in Accounting Research

Garry D. Carnegie and Christopher J. Napier



6. Grounded Theory Approach to Accounting Studies: Overview of Principles, Assumptions and Methods

Andrew Goddard



7. Visual Methodologies for Accounting and Accountability

Jane Davison and Samantha Warren



8. Appreciative Inquiry for Accounting Research

Zahirul Hoque

Part III: Methodologies and Strategies



9. Ethnography, Ethnomethodology and Anthropology Studies In Accounting

Colin Dey



10. Case Studies in Accounting Research

Bill Lee and Christopher G. Humphrey



11. An Emergence of Narrative Approaches in Social Sciences and in Accounting Research

Barbara Czarniawska



12. Oral History

Theresa A. Hammond



13. Autoethnography In Accounting Research

Kathryn Haynes



14. Action Research in Accounting

Timothy J. Fogarty



15. Discourse Analysis in Accounting Research

Rihab Khalifa and Habib Mahama



16. An Introduction to Interventionist Research in Accounting

John Dumay and Vicky Baard



17. Reflexivity in Accounting Research

Kathryn Haynes

Part IV: Data Collection and Analysis



18. Mixed Methods for Understanding Accounting Issues

Basil Tucker and Zahirul Hoque



19. Field Interviews: Process and Analysis



Habib Mahama and Rihab Khalifa



20. Participant Observation at the Coalface

Lee D. Parker



21. Content Analysis



David Campbell



22. Focus Group Discussions

Elizabeth Gammie, Susan Hamilton and Valerie Gilchrist



23. Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Data in Management Accounting Research

Mark A. Covaleski, Mark W. Dirsmith and Sajay Samuel



24. Qualitative Data Management and Analysis Software

Fiona Anderson-Gough, Carla Edgley and Nina Sharma



25. Credibility and Authenticity in Qualitative Accounting Research

Martin Messner, Jodie Moll and Torkel Stromsten

Part IV: Experiencing Qualitative Field Research: Personal Reflections



26. A Case Study Research Project: Personal Reflections

Sophia Ji



27. Etics, Emics and Ethnomethodology in Accounting Research

Vassili Joannides



28. Ethical Considerations In Qualitative Research: Personal Experiences From The Field

Esin Ozdil, Chatruika Seneviratne and Xuan Thuy Mai



29. Conducting Oral History Research: Reflections From the Field

Kathie Ross