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 […]

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 […]

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 […]