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Making a Contribution in Accounting Research, Part IV: Mapping the Conceptual Relationships in Nonprofit Accounting Articles

November 16, 2020 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

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Making a Contribution in Accounting Research, Part II: Focus on Nonprofit Accounting

November 10, 2020 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

In a previous post I laid out the main different ways articles can make a “contribution” to the literature. In order to make my arguments more concrete, in this and subsequent posts I will be analyzing nonprofit accounting articles for theoretical “contribution.” Below you will find all 28 articles that have been published in five […]

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Making a Contribution in Accounting Research, Part I: Types of Contributions

November 10, 2020 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

This is first in a series of posts covering how to make an intellectual contribution in academic research in accounting as well as most other business and social science disciplines. In the academic worlds I interact with — accounting, business, social sciences — one of the words you’ll hear time and again is “contribution.” This […]

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Making a Contribution in Accounting Research, Part III: Relationships in Top Nonprofit Accounting Articles

October 27, 2020 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

This post is Part 3 in my series on intellectual contribution in academic articles. In Part 1 I covered the main types of “contributions” at an abstract level. In Part 2 I turned to the first in a set of posts designed to make the typology concrete by analyzing the type of contribution in the […]

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Quest for Attention: Nonprofit Advocacy in a Social Media Age

July 20, 2020 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

The past year and a half I’ve been working on an academic book for Stanford University Press with my friend Chao Guo, Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management in the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. We’re happy to say, the book is out! Guo, Chao, & Saxton, Gregory D. (2020). […]

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Chapter 3 – Analyzing Twitter Data by Time Period

January 17, 2019 by Gregory Saxton 1 Comment

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Chapter 2 – Aggregating and Analyzing Data by Twitter Account

January 17, 2019 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

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What is Accounting Analytics?

October 27, 2018 by Gregory Saxton 3 Comments

One of the buzz-words in business schools is data analytics or, in an accounting school, accounting analytics. But what exactly is ‘accounting analytics’? How is it different from existing tools and disciplines such as ‘statistics’, ‘computer science’, ‘machine learning, ‘Big Data’, or ‘managerial accounting’? In this post I will disentangle this emerging field. This is […]

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Generating, Plotting, and Comparing Word Frequencies with PANDAS and Rosario Tijeras

July 26, 2018 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

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Chapter 1 – Import Data, Select Cases and Variables, Save DataFrame

July 23, 2018 by Gregory Saxton Leave a Comment

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