Interview-based research in accounting 2000–2014: Informal norms, translation and vibrancy

This paper brings to light informal norms that surround the production of interview-based research in the accounting domain – specifically regarding the number of interviews, the notion of saturation, length of articles, length of dedicated method section, reference to data coding, and number of block quotations per article. Our premise is that while the formal methodological literature in qualitative research provides guiding principles, the...