Accounting & Marketing

Department of Accounting, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Belgium

Publications

• Mini Review   
  Concerns and Actively Engaged Research
  Author(s): Alan Kirkpatrick*
  
  This paper contends that recurring concerns regarding the nature of academic accounting research ought to be taken seriously. As a means of expanding our social license, it suggests engaging research. Engaged research is characterized as follows, based on the argument of Chua and Fiedler. It co-produces research on matters that matter (to practitioners, regulators, academics and communities) and engages with complex practice relations. The paper explains how accounting research could interact with a modern business environment marked by widespread digitization and new climate change risks and opportunities. Researchers who received their training but whose work is situated in very distinct research traditions, both voiced concerns that are comparable to those of hopwood. However, both are concerned that accounting researchers. Hopwood specifically referred to U.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2168-9601.2023.12.417

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