(Ebook) Handbook of Management Accounting Research, Volume 1 by Christopher S. Chapman, Anthony G. Hopwood, Michael D. Shields ISBN 9780080445649, 0080445640

(Ebook) Handbook of Management Accounting Research, Volume 1 by Christopher S. Chapman, Anthony G. Hopwood, Michael D. Shields ISBN 9780080445649, 0080445640

Volume one of the ''Handbooks of Management Accounting Research'' sets the context for both Handbooks, with three chapters outlining the historical development of management accounting as a discipline and as a practice in three broad geographic settings. The bulk of the first volume then draws together a series of contributions that analyse the scholarly literature in terms of distinct intellectual and theoretical social science perspectives. The volume includes a chapter which looks at work informed by psychology as a base discipline. The volume also includes a set of chapters that seek to evaluate and explain issues of research method for the different approaches to research found within management accounting. It documents the scholarly management accounting literature.