Behavioral Accounting Research - Accounting Researchin the Behavioral Paradigm? True or False?

Marta Nowak

Published : 2016-02-28

Vol. 66 No. 1 (2016)

Behavioral Accounting Research - Accounting Researchin the Behavioral Paradigm? True or False?

Marta Nowak

Abstract

This paper deals with the problem of the research paradigm in behavioral accounting. It focuses on the question of whether the behavior paradigm is applied in the science called "behavioral accounting." Considerations presented in the paper are of theoretical character. The author focuses on a literature study, based on historical and contemporary papers. The considerations are interdisciplinary, combining fields such as philosophy (with special emphasis on the philosophy of science), psychology, behaviorism, accounting (with special emphasis on behavioral accounting) and finance.(original abstract)

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Behaviourism, Behavioral economics, Accounting, Behavioural accounting

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Nowak, M. (2016). Behavioral Accounting Research - Accounting Researchin the Behavioral Paradigm? True or False?. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Bankowej W Poznaniu, 66(1). Retrieved from https://journals.wsb.poznan.pl/index.php/znwsb/article/view/928

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