Management Accounting Research in Practice

Name: Management Accounting Research in Practice
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Management Accounting Research in PracticeLessons Learned from an Interventionist Approach\nAuthor(s): Petri Suomala, Jouni Lyly-Yrjninen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138959767, 978-1138959767\nSynopsis\nMany scholars have claimed that management accounting research has lost its pragmatic relevancy and interventionist research has been proposed as one way to produce theories with increased practical implications. In interventionist research, active participation in the field is regarded as an asset rather than a liability. Despite the methodological debate on interventionist research, there is lack of empirical studies on how interventionist research actually helps to produce theories with such pragmatic relevance. The lack of empirical studies has, perhaps, resulted in a too narrow connotation to the research approach. \n\nThis book attempts to shed light on the various nuances of interventionist research a.