The Real Life Guide to Accounting Research: A Behind-the-Scenes View of Using Qualitative Research Methods Book

	Dedication
	Acknowledgements
	Authors' biographies
	Introduction
1	The search for clues in accounting history	5
2	Adventures in social and environmental accounting and auditing research : a personal reflection	23
3	Using case studies in finance research	37
4	Accounting and auditing research in the United States	57
5	Forever destined to be extras in a Broadway show? : a discussion on the status of national accounting research in an international arena	73
6	'Nice work' : writing a Ph.D. thesis in accounting	95
7	Learning to balance : the experience of an overseas Ph.D. student in the U.K.	119
8	Starting and managing a European Union funded research project	139
9	Management of a research team	149
10	Confessions of a research assistant	163
11	Making sense of interactions in an investigation of organisational practices and processes	175
12	Qualitative research on accounting : some thoughts on what occurs behind the scene	191
13	Critical independence	207
14	Case-based research in accounting	231
15	Doing case study research	257
16	What is the object of accounting? : a dialogue	281
17	Refining research questions in the course of negotiating access for fieldwork	295
18	Insights from Internet-based research : realising a qualitative understanding from a quantitative search process	309
19	The case study, the interview and the issues : a personal reflection	325
20	Qualitative research : experiences in using semi-structured interviews	339
21	To tape or not to tape : reflections on methods of data collection	359
22	Using computer assisted qualitative data analysis software : respecting voices within data management and analysis	373
23	Qualitative data analysis : illuminating a process for transforming a 'messy' but 'attractive' 'nuisance'	391
24	Requirements and understandings for publishing academic research : an insider view	411
25	How do accounting research journals function? Reflections from the inside	433
26	Research and public practice accounting	449
27	Disseminating research through teaching	465
28	Qualitative methodology in practice : my experience	481
29	Raising the profile of qualitative methods in organizational research	491
30	Qualitative dimensions in finance and risk management research	509
	Author index	525
	Subject index	535