The Routledge Handbook to Qualitative Accounting Research Methods: (Routledge International Handbooks)

Selecting from the extensive range of research methodologies remains a challenge for all scholars, not least those studying the world of accounting. Both established and emerging research methods are frequently advocated, creating a challengingly broad range of choices. Covering a wide selection of qualitative methodological issues, research strategies, and methods, this comprehensive new edition provides an essential guide to the choice and execution of qualitative research approaches in this field. The original chapters included in the previous edition have all been updated to reflect the changing academic and research environment and a significant number of new chapters on several contemporary themes have been introduced. These include research-researched relationship and its effects in interpretive accounting research, translation in accounting research, phenomenology, netnography, counter accounts, autoethnography, virtual field-interviews, and embracing qualitative research in a hostile environment. This new volume draws on the expertise of cutting-edge scholars in the field, offering insights to enhance knowledge creation and challenge the staid and overused methods and assumptions that often dominate the field. Thus, it is well-suited to the needs of the new generation of researchers, presenting a more cohesive and focused pathway into qualitative research.

Table of Contents:
Part I: Introduction 1. Researching Everyday Accounting Practice: Epistemological Debate Part II: Worldviews and Paradigms 2. Social Constructionist Research in Accounting: A Reflection on the Accounting Profession 3. Interpretive Research in Accounting: Past, Present and Future 4. The research-researched relationship and its effects in interpretive accounting research 5. Critical Studies in Accounting: Researching the Exercise of Power 6. Translation in Accounting Research 7. Phenomenology and research in accounting (and related practices): a critical appreciation 8. Historiography in Accounting Research 9. Grounded Theory Approach to Accounting Studies: Overview of Principles, Assumptions and Methods 10. Visual Methodologies for Accounting and Accountability 11. Appreciative Inquiry for Accounting Research Part III: Methodologies and Strategies 12. Ethnography, Ethnomethodology and Anthropology Studies in Accounting 13. Netnography for Accounting and Accountability Research 14. The case for counter-accounts: Evidence from scholarship and research practice 15. Case Studies in Accounting Research 16. Emergence of Narrative Approaches in Social Sciences and in Accounting Research 17. Oral History 18. Autoethnography In Accounting Research 19. Action Research in Accounting 20. Discourse Analysis in Accounting Research 21. An Introduction to Interventionist Research in Accounting 22. Reflexivity in Accounting Research Part IV: Data collection and analysis 23. Mixed Methods in Contemporary Accounting Research 24. Field Interviews: Process and Analysis 25. Participant Observation at the Coalface 26. Focus Group Discussions 27. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: An overview 28. Qualitative Data Management and Analysis Software 29. Credibility and Authenticity in Qualitative Accounting Research Part V: Experiencing qualitative field research: Personal reflections 30. A Case Study Research Project: Personal Reflections 31. Etics, Emics and Ethnomethodology in Accounting Research 32. Experiencing autoethnography during a PhD journey and beyond: personal reflection and lessons for future research 33. A difference that makes no difference is no difference: Virtual Field Interviews in Accounting Research 34. Ethical Considerations in Qualitative Research: Personal Experiences from The Field 35. Embracing qualitative research in a "hostile" environment? Voices from the field of qualitative accounting

About the Author :
Zahirul Hoque is a Professor of Accounting at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Lee D. Parker is a Research Professor of Accounting at the University of Glasgow, UK. Kathryn Haynes is an Emerita Professor of Accounting at Northumbria University, UK.

Review :
This comprehensive and updated reference volume illustrates the rigor and relevance of qualitative accounting research methods—a must for those working in the field. Professor Salvador Carmona IE Business School, Spain This new Edition is essential for accounting researchers, students, and policymakers. It contains many updated chapters and materials from the first The Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Accounting Research Methods. This book testifies to the richness of Qualitative Accounting Research scholars and their analytical and writing skills. Emeritus Professor James Guthrie, AM Macquarie University, Australia This exciting revised and extended Edition covers an exhaustive range of approaches and issues in qualitative research—essential reading for researchers anticipating embarking on such research and those already doing it. Professor Trevor Hopper University of Sussex, UK This is a very comprehensive book on Qualitative Research methodology for accounting researchers and students. It lively integrates methodological questions with theoretical ones and written by eminent researchers. Professor Jan Mouritsen Copenhagen Business School This comprehensive Companion volume provides an excellent and authoritative survey of the state of qualitative accounting research methods. It is sure to be illuminating for new entrants to the field and a ready reference for practitioners of qualitative accounting research. Professor Vaughan S. Radcliffe Ivey Business School at Western University, USA