Abstract
Given the ever-increasing output of scientific research in our accounting field, timely, informed, comprehensive, and articulated literature reviews represent a necessary and useful tool to the entire academic community. Literature reviews have different functionalities: they foster reflexivity, analysis, and justification of different areas of scholarly investigation, articulating their achievements, providing critical analysis of their failures, and signaling areas where new research can make substantial extensions of previous work. They invite to broaden scholarship by identifying areas that are under-represented in accounting research. They enhance our understanding of the functioning of accounting by articulating the relationship between different theories and by building the gap between diverse research traditions in accounting.
Consistent with those functionalities, the objective of this special issue of European Accounting Review (EAR) is to welcome literature reviews on any area of scholarly investigation in the broad accounting field, including research methods in relation to accounting.
In line with the traditional openness of EAR in terms of research methods, we welcome traditional qualitative literature reviews together with more quantitative structured literature reviews.
We are seeking to receive high-quality literature reviews. Reviews must be (almost) comprehensive within the given topic it covers, bringing a real value-added contribution by providing a critical discussion of the literature, identifying methodological problems, areas of debate, or research gaps.
Together, the papers in this EAR special issue will provide an opportunity to explore accounting as a discipline, broadening its scholarship and exploring what is specific to the accounting craft. We anticipate that, consistent with the history of this discipline, different contributions will review how accounting research has drawn on various disciplines, such as finance, economics, psychology, organizational studies, or sociology. But, at the same time, this collective project will help take stock of what accounting research can achieve, while other disciplines cannot, making it recognizable as a distinctive and autonomous area of research.
Papers submitted to this special issue, following EAR submission guidelines, will be subject to a double-blind review process. Submission opens on 15 November 2019 and closes on 30 November 2019.
This is a summarized version of the Call for Papers. More details can be found at: https://www-tandfonline-com-s.web.bisu.edu.cn/action/journalInformation?show=specialIssues&journalCode=rear20