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.


Incommensurability, Interpretive research, Management accounting, Naturalistic philosophical inquiry, Research paradigms, Subjectivism/Objectivism



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