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Should research on accounting in Africa incorporate paradigm shifts?
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posted on 2023-06-10, 01:53 authored by Trevor Hopper, Olayinka Moses, Nelson WaweruThis paper evaluates recent reviews of accounting research in Africa. These prompt consideration of nurturing research approaches encompassing diverse paradigms. Accounting research in highly ranked accounting journals has contained a small proportion of articles on Africa, and these have predominately been on richer countries with developed capital markets. However, a gradual paradigm shift is apparent. About 51% of published African accounting research has employed qualitative methods unlike that on developing countries in Asia, where quantitative market-based research has been dominant. A gradual shift in African accounting research philosophies and methodologies has accompanied investigations of topics more pertinent to Africa, such as attaining Sustainable Development Goals. Significant numbers of African accounting articles in lesser or unranked English language journals, and in non-English language journals, especially in French, German, Portuguese, and Italian exist, but fell outside the scope of this exercise exist. They need reviewing.
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African Accounting and Finance JournalISSN
2683-6599Publisher
African Accounting and Finance AssociationPublisher URL
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1Volume
4Page range
54-69Department affiliated with
- Accounting and Finance Publications
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2021-11-29First Open Access (FOA) Date
2022-07-05First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2021-11-29Usage metrics
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