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- Title
Beyond the ticket and the brand: imagining an accounting research future.
- Authors
Parker, Lee D.
- Abstract
This paper presents a reflective critique of the current university environment and the state of accounting research with a view to envisaging the latter's forward trajectory, particularly in terms of emerging subject areas, theoretical perspectives and methodological traditions. It considers the contemporary fixation upon research performance indicators and warns of their associated impact on the role and orientation of academic researchers. The emergence of specialist interdisciplinary and qualitative research communities within the accounting discipline are presented as opportunities for the invigoration of the accounting project. Nonetheless, the pursuit of research esteem indicators is argued to risk disengaging researchers from policy and practice concerns. Future roles, responsibilities and intentions of scholars are visited in the light of these observations.
- Subjects
COMMERCIAL documents; BUSINESS names; ACCOUNTING; INTERDISCIPLINARY research; FUTURES studies; COLLEGE environment; QUALITATIVE research; SCIENTIFIC community
- Publication
Accounting & Finance, 2012, Vol 52, Issue 4, p1153
- ISSN
0810-5391
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-629X.2012.00507.x