The Positivistic Approach to Management Accounting: Recent Developments and Future Directions

Ahmed Kholeif

doi:10.1057/9780230353275

The Positivistic Approach to Management Accounting: Recent Developments and Future Directions

Ahmed Kholeif

Business School

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This chapter reviews recent developments in the positivistic approach to management accounting research. The debate around the unsatisfactory sate of empirical positivistic management accounting research has resulted in offering various future solutions and directions for the theorization of management accounting research, including the sole reliance on economics-based theory, the diverse use of wide range of theories from different disciplines, importing theories from other disciplines or building unique management accounting theories.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Review of Management Accounting Research
Editors	M. Abdel-Kader
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Palgrave
Pages	523-542
Number of pages	608
ISBN (Print)	9780230252370
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230353275
Publication status	Published - Nov 2011

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