No premature closures of debates, please: A response to Ahrens

: Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila, Kari Lukka, Jaakko Kuorikoski

Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

: 2008

: Accounting, Organizations and Society

: ACCOUNTING ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETY

: ACCOUNT ORG SOC

: 33

: 2-3

: 298

: 301

: 4

: 0361-3682

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2007.05.001

In this response to Ahrens [Ahrens, T. (2008). Overcoming the subjective-objective divide in interpretive management accounting research. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 33(2-3), 292-297] we clarify both the motivation and the core points of the Kakkuri-Knuuttila et al. [Kakkuri-Knuuttila, M.-L., Lukka, K., & Kuorikoski, J. (2008). Straddling between paradigms: A naturalistic philosophical case study on interpretive research in management accounting. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 33(2-3), 267-291] paper. We remind the management accounting academia that we should be careful not to close prematurely examinations and debates on issues, which are not yet truly resolved.