Making a Contribution in Accounting Research, Part II: Focus on Nonprofit Accounting
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 […]
Making a Contribution in Accounting Research, Part I: Types of Contributions
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 […]
Making a Contribution in Accounting Research, Part III: Relationships in Top Nonprofit Accounting Articles
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 […]
Quest for Attention: Nonprofit Advocacy in a Social Media Age
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). […]
Chapter 3 – Analyzing Twitter Data by Time Period
Chapter 2 – Aggregating and Analyzing Data by Twitter Account
What is Accounting Analytics?
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 […]
Generating, Plotting, and Comparing Word Frequencies with PANDAS and Rosario Tijeras
Chapter 1 – Import Data, Select Cases and Variables, Save DataFrame
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