Battlefield around interventions: A reflective analysis of conducting interventionist research in management accounting

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 304-314

  Suomala, Petri ^a   Lyly Yrjänäinen, Jouni ^a   Lukka, Kari ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Case study; Cost implications of component commonality in engineering to order context; Intervention as a battlefield; Interventionist research approach; Interventionist research as engaged scholarship; Reflective analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84909968568     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2014.05.001     Document Type: Article

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