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A pragmatic view on engaged scholarship in accounting research

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Purpose – This paper aims to discuss the question of how the possible gaps between academic and
practical accounting research can be reduced and how academics could make a contribution to solving
the practical problems of organizations.
Design/methodology/approach – A reflection on Van de Ven and Johnson’s ideas about “engaged
scholarship” as a way for overcoming the gap between academic and practical knowledge creation,
illustrated with examples coming from public sector accounting research.
Findings – Although academic consultant/researchers, who conduct research of direct relevance to
practice, ideally must have research objectives in mind that go beyond the practical problems of the
organization in order to address academically relevant goals, this is often not feasible. This is due to
the fact that academically relevant research questions can often only be identified when a
practice-oriented research project has already taken shape. The authors argue and illustrate that a
pragmatic form of engaged scholarship in public sector accounting research implies that such research
results in a variety of outputs. Some of the outputs will have direct relevance to the practitioners and
others to the academics involved, whilst the outputs that are relevant to each of these two groups will
only partly show connections and overlaps.
Practical implications – The preoccupation of academic researchers with publications in
high-ranking journals, due to pressures from their universities and peer groups, threatens research
projects with a potential relevance for practice, because their publication opportunities are uncertain in
advance. The authors welcome researchers who want to take this type of risk, and the authors
challenge university officials and journal editors to broaden their view on excellence in research
beyond the scope of their traditional academic domains.
Originality/value – The paper offers a realistic way out of serving two seemingly different research
goals, practice-relevance and academic rigour.

Keywords Public sector accounting, Engaged scholarship, Practice-relevant research

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Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management

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: Emerald Group., 2014

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Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management Vol. 11 No. 1, 2014 pp. 40-50

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English

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Asmawati/Syahrial

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