2014 Awards for Excellence

Citation

(2014), "2014 Awards for Excellence", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 27 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-03-2014-005

2014 Awards for Excellence

Article Type: Literature and insights From: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Volume 27, Issue 3

Mary Parker Follett Award

Named in memory of a pioneering woman in the field of management and accountability literature who was international and interdisciplinary in her approach.

The following article was selected for this year’s Outstanding Paper Award for Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

"Theoretical triangulation and pluralism in research methods in organizational and accounting research"

Zahirul Hoque, La Trobe Business School and Centre for Public Sector Governance, Accountability and Performance, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

Mark A. Covaleski, Graduate School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Tharusha N. Gooneratne, Department of Accounting, Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present a critical review of the contributions of multiple theories to accounting and organizational research, which is often referred to as "theoretical triangulation" or "theoretical pluralism", with a particular focus on the manner in which chosen research methods have informed these efforts at theoretical triangulation.

Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct an analysis of how to employ theoretical triangulations and methodological pluralism in accounting and organizational research. To this end, they use prior empirical evidence for illustrative purposes.

Findings - The authors argue that using theories with epistemological tensions that are captured by appropriate research methods enable one to explore different, sometimes even contradictory, layers of meanings of realities pertaining to management accounting information and processes in organizations and society.

Originality/value - The paper contributes to the thinking about the interaction between theory development and research methods chosen by demonstrating how and under what circumstances multiple theories could be meaningfully integrated and executed to provide deeper understandings of accounting and organizational phenomena.

This article originally appeared in Volume 26 Number 7, 2013, pp. 1170-1198, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

The following articles were selected for this year's Highly Commended Award

"Accounting as a human right: the case of water information"

James Hazelton

This article originally appeared in Volume 26 Number 2, 2013, pp. 267-311,Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

"Biodiversity offsetting: problematisation of an emerging governance regime"

Helen Tregidga

This article originally appeared in Volume 26 Number 5, 2013, pp. 806-832, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

"Sustainability reports as simulacra? A counter-account of A and A+ GRI reports"

Olivier Boiral

This article originally appeared in Volume 26 Number 7, 2013, pp. 1036-1071, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

Previous Winners

2012 Christine Cooper and Joanne Johnston

2011 Doris M. Merkl-Davies, Niamh M. Brennan and Stuart J. Mcleay

2010 Barbara D. Merino, Alan G. Mayper, Thomas D. Tolleson

2009 Markus Milne, Helen Tregidga and Sara Walton

2008 Georgios Georgakopoulos and Ian Thomson

2007 Rihab Khalifa, Nina Sharma, Christopher Humphrey, Keith Robson

2006 Maria Cadiz Dyball, Wai Fong Chua and Chris Poullaos

2005 William Shafer and Yves Gendron

2004 Jesse Dillard, John T. Rigsby and Carrie Goodman

2003 Dean Neu, Constance Friesen and Jeffery Everett jointly with Sue Llewellyn

2002 Jane Broadbent and Richard Laughlin

2001 John Holland

2000 Gordon Boyce

1999 Timothy Fogarty and Vaughan Radcliffe

1998 Warwick Funnell

1997 Sue Llewellyn

1996 Robert Scapens and Christopher Humphrey

1995 Richard Laughlin

1994 Leslie Oakes, Judith Considine and Steven Gould

1993 Christopher Humphrey, Peter Miller and Robert Scapens

1992 Hugh Willmott, Anthony Puxty, Keith Robson, David Cooper and Anthony Lower

Outstanding Reviewers

For the seventh year running, Emerald has decided to name and reward the outstanding reviewers who contribute to the success of the journals. Those mentioned below have been singled out by the editors for their excellent work

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

Professor Jeffrey Unerman, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK (jeffrey.unerman@rhul.ac.uk)

Professor Lisa Evans, Stirling University, UK (lisa.evans@stir.ac.uk)