{"product_id":"accounting-a-multiparadigmatic-science","title":"Accounting, a Multiparadigmatic Science","description":"Once considered an intruder into the academic community, accounting has developed into a full fledged social science, with fierce competition among its different paradigms. Riahi-Belkaoui explains that these paradigms, each striving for primacy through publications, conferences, and other means of self-exposure, are characterized by their exemplars, their image of the subject matter, their theories, and finally the methods they use. In doing so they have given accounting a certain, new cachet. Riahi-Belkaoui thus provides a critical examination of each of these paradigms in an effort to guide researchers and policymakers in their search for proper interpretations and positionings of the products of accounting research. A stimulating discussion for academics and knowledgeable professionals alike.\n\nIn six chapters each devoted to a specific paradigm, the book elucidates each paradigm's contribution to accounting thought and practice. Covered are the anthropological\/inductive paradigm, the true income\/deductive paradigm, the decision usefulness\/decision model paradigm, the decision usefulness\/decision maker\/aggregate market behavior paradigm, and the decision usefulness\/decision maker\/individual user paradigm. The result is a book that makes unique use of philosophy of science concepts in accounting, and a book that will also have applications in university graduate-level courses in research methodology and accounting theory.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54217646506328,"sku":"9781567200485","price":86.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781567200485_9071d1cd-5d52-4071-a936-ee3c6688bda9.jpg?v=1743738320","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/accounting-a-multiparadigmatic-science","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}