QualRAN

Qualitative Research in Accounting Network: A Special Interest Group (SIG) of AFAANZ

Objectives
QualRAN aims to develop a supportive environment for accounting academics in Australia and New Zealand who are engaged in, or wish to engage in qualitative research through ethnographies, field or case studies, where the primary data collection is observation and/or interview (i.e. using research methods that are not in the main, based on applying statistical or other quantitative techniques).

Members may include those with interests in all aspects of accounting (defined loosely) but including financial accounting, auditing, management accounting, accounting information systems, corporate governance, performance measurement/management, risk management, whether in private, public or not-for-profit sectors. Many such researchers will have an interest in the social, behavioural and organizational implications of accounting, and may adopt a range of economic, interpretive and critical perspectives.

The SIG comprises experienced and well-published academics, early and mid-career academics and PhD students. The main activities of the SIG includes:

• providing a forum for the exchange of ideas
• encouraging both new and established researchers in qualitative methods
• initiating, encouraging and facilitating collaborative research
• disseminating information and communicating members’ research interests
• providing opportunities to present new research ideas and work-in-progress in supportive workshops with more time than is usually available at a conference.