Management Accounting Research in Practice - Lessons Learned from an Interventionist Approach (Hardcover)

It has been claimed that management accounting research has failed to produce theories with practical relevance. Interventionist research has been proposed as one means to overcome this problem of relevance. Interventionist research has many links to qualitative research genres. However, interventionist research should be viewed as one distinctive form of case study, in which the researcher is profoundly and actively involved with the object of study. In interventionist research, active participation in the field is regarded as an asset rather than a liability. In other words, access to an empirical setting through active participation is seen as more valuable than the risk of compromising objectivity. Despite the methodological debate about interventionist research, there is lack of empirical evidence on how interventionist research actually helps to produce theories with such pragmatic relevance. This book sheds light on the various nuances of interventionist research and the positions a researcher can occupy when applying interventionist research. It focuses on different aspects of management accounting during the past ten years with interventionist elements in them.In addition, to help scholars increase collaboration with industry, interviews with the key managers involved in these interventionist research projects in order to gather their views on such research approach are included, also motivating managers to engage in such collaboration.