کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1004073 937735 2014 24 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Accounting narratives and the narrative turn in accounting research: Issues, theory, methodology, methods and a research framework
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
روایت های حسابداری و روایت در تحقیقات حسابداری نوید: مسائل، نظریه، روش شناسی، روش ها و چارچوب تحقیق
کلمات کلیدی
روایت حسابداری، تجزیه و تحلیل محتوا، زبانشناسی سازه، تجزیه و تحلیل گفتمان، داستان گویی حسگر سازی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدیریت، کسب و کار و حسابداری حسابداری
چکیده انگلیسی

This plenary address paper traces the development of accounting narratives in external reporting practice and research, focussing on corporate-sourced financial communications to shareholders and analysts. It is written from the personal perspective of a researcher who began in the positivist tradition of disclosure research and is increasingly engaging with the more interpretive/critical tradition of socially-constructed narratives. Whereas early accounting narratives research existed at the margins, modern content-analytic work on disclosures rose to a position of prominence, alongside the rise of non-financial information in the practice domain. In recent years, large-scale linguistic studies have entered the mainstream positivist North American literature, supported by computerised natural language processing. Outside this community, accounting research has witnessed a ‘narrative turn’, similar to many other social science disciplines, marking a shift away from realism and positivism. This paper argues for the importance of both lines of research. Participants' actions in relation to accounting narratives may be understood in terms of, inter alia, both economic explanations based on utility maximisation and behavioural explanations based on psychology and the embeddedness of narrative in social practice. In terms of methodology and methods, the weakening of the deep-surface divide is exemplified by the common combination of corpus linguistics approaches with (critical) discourse analysis in other disciplines. Based on a discussion of key issues, theory, methodology and methods, a framework for thinking about research in accounting narratives is offered. The challenge is to better understand the role of narratives in the increasingly rich, complex information environment of external reporting.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: The British Accounting Review - Volume 46, Issue 2, June 2014, Pages 111–134
نویسندگان
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