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Methodological themes: Back to the drawing board: revisiting grounded theory and the everyday accountant’s and manager’s reality

Parker, Lee D., Roffey, Bet H.·1997·Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal
DOI 10.1108/09513579710166730
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Restates the case for accounting and management research from a grounded theory perspective, and advocates its informed and more frequent application. Examines the intellectual foundations and key tenets of grounded theory in the context of researchers’ theoretical assumptions and methodological characteristics, discussed in relation to Laughlin’s (1995) classification schema. Pays particular attention to grounded theory assumptions and methods in relation to other interpretive paradigms such as symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology and hermeneutics. Describes the basic principles and methods of grounded theory research, and presents potential applications to the accounting and management research arenas. Argues that rigorous grounded theory research can offer the accounting and management literatures unique understandings that provide additional perspectives to those already being offered by major schools of thought, and discusses implications of grounded theory for informing contemporary professional practice.

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Authors
Parker, L. D., & Roffey, B. H.
Venue
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal
Publisher
Emerald
Published
1997-05-01
Volume
10
Issue
2
Pages
212-247
ISSN
0951-3574 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1108/09513579710166730
OpenAlex
W1981021343
Cited by
309
References
4
FWCI
9.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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