Critical Independence

McSweeney, Brendan

doi:10.1016/b978-008043972-3/50015-3

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“…The key feature of this position is that the researcher remains in the etic perspective and does not become an insider in either organisation. Additionally, in this position, it is easier to remain formal and keep away from conflicting interests that could jeopardise the researcher's critical independence (McSweeney, 2004). However, these benefits come with limited access to the rich data interventionist research is known for.…”

Section: Possibilities and Limitations Of The Three Positionsmentioning

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The Three Positions for Interorganizational Interventionist Researcher: Navigating in the Supplier‑Customer Dyad

Tiitola¹,

Lyly-Yrjänäinen²,

Laine³

2020

EJBRM

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The paper identifies and examines different positions of an interventionist researcher, facilitating value co‑creation for new technology in customer‑supplier dyads. The paper answers two research questions: (1) "what kind of positions can an interventionist researcher assume in a supplier‑customer dyad?" and (2) "what should an interventionist researcher consider when choosing a suitable position for her research design?" The paper reflects upon a longitudinal interventionist case study (2017‑2020) focused on facilitating and evaluating the value created by new medicine‑dispensing robot technology in home‑care in Nordic countries. The researchers conducted interventionist research in 11 supplier‑customer dyads, with multiple, evolving positions of the researcher(s). As a result, as a contribution to the existing knowledge about the role of the interventionist researchers, the paper proposes three positions that the interventionist researcher can take in an interorganizational supplier‑customer dyad: an auditor, a lawyer or a mediator. The auditor investigates the interface between the supplier and the customer as an outsider. The lawyer position compromises this perceived neutrality (but not independence) for deeper access to empirical data regarding one of the organisations. Thus, the lawyer actively pursues the status of 'one of us' with either the supplier or the customer. The mediator expands the previous positions by trying to achieve a status of 'one of us' in both organisations trying to understand both sides of the same story supporting both the supplier's and customers' activities. Importantly, as an extension to the existing knowledge, the paper argues that not only can an interventionist researcher move between the etic and emic domains, but she can also move within the supplier‑customer dyad under examination. Thus, when conducting research within the customer‑supplier dyads (and within similarly complex contexts), the interventionist researcher needs to be aware of the existence of different positions and her actual position to the subject of interventionist study. Indeed, the interventionist researcher may choose her role, or the role may be a result of an evolutionary process. The role is 'given' by the people the interventionist researcher interacts with and, thus, not something the researcher can completely decide by herself. However, the interventionist researcher can pursue a specific role that fits her research agenda and design. In any case, the researcher needs to be honest and transparent regarding the actually taken position to avoid potential methodological pitfalls arising from complex, novel research settings.

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Section: Possibilities and Limitations Of The Three Positionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Three Positions for Interorganizational Interventionist Researcher: Navigating in the Supplier‑Customer Dyad

Tiitola¹,

Lyly-Yrjänäinen²,

Laine³

2020

EJBRM

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“…National research assessment exercises as PMSs offer the possibility of measuring research outputs across different public sector universities (McSweeny, 2004). In the United Kingdom, research assessment exercises have been undertaken since 1980 and have been instrumental in shaping the HES (Broadbent, 2016; Evans, 2014; Martin-Sardesai et al, 2017a).…”

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History of research performance measurement systems in the Australian higher education sector

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Performance measurement systems (PMSs) are a global phenomenon emanating from new public management (NPM) reforms. While they are now prolific and entrenched, they have attracted criticism based on their design and the manner in which they are applied. The purpose of this article is to explore the history of accounting for research in the Australian higher education sector (HES). It focuses on how successive Australian governments have steered research within the sector through the introduction of PMSs, in line with NPM reforms. Relying on publicly available online policy documents and scholarly literature, the study traces the development of performance measures within the Australian HES from the mid-1980s to 2015. It contributes to literature in management accounting aspects of NPM through the means of management accounting techniques such as PMSs. It also contributes to accounting history literature through an examination of three decades of accounting for research in the Australian HES.

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“…Therefore, reflexivity leads us to be more scientific, ethical and help us to maintain "critical independence", i.e. in the sense that we always test our findings and explanations of the research phenomena (McSweeney, 2004).…”

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Reflexivity in Qualitative Accounting Research

Khalid

2009

Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting

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The substance of qualitative research is reality reconstruction, which is reconstructing the reality of the subjects regarding their social world. The researcher is, in fact, making claims on behalf of the subjects. As such, reflexivity is important in qualitative research. The core concern in the issue of reflexivity deals with representations of the social reality; the types of representations the researcher is involved with and also the relationship between the researcher and the subjects. Scrutiny of our research practises is necessary in order to address such issues. As such, this paper discusses the issue of reflexivity in qualitative accounting research. The role of the theoretical framework and the researchers own values and assumptions, and how it influences the research process are also discussed.

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Critical Independence

Cited by 5 publications

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The Three Positions for Interorganizational Interventionist Researcher: Navigating in the Supplier‑Customer Dyad

The Three Positions for Interorganizational Interventionist Researcher: Navigating in the Supplier‑Customer Dyad

History of research performance measurement systems in the Australian higher education sector

Reflexivity in Qualitative Accounting Research

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