Positivistic Management Accounting Research : Recent Issues and Future Directions

Future Directions for Chinese Accounting Research

Capital-markets based accounting research in China has a relatively short history; the two principal stock exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen have operated for less than 20 years. Recent accounting research has tended to adopt techniques, research designs and even topics that were developed in North America and apply them to the Chinese setting. This paper describes several aspects of the curre...

Employee Entrepreneurship: Recent Research and Future Directions

XBRL: Impacts, Issues and Future Research Directions

Only 13 years ago in April 1998 Charles Hoffman, a CPA investigated how XML could be used for the reporting of business and financial information. By now many researchers are dealing with this topic. The high (practical) relevance of XBRL is emphasized by several laws and a large number of regulatory requirements stipulating the use of XBRL for business and financial reporting. Giving an overvi...

Acamprosate: recent findings and future research directions.

This article explores the mechanisms of action and the potential responder profile of acamprosate, a compound efficacious in relapse prevention of alcoholism. New evidence at the molecular and cellular level suggests that acamprosate attenuates hyper-glutamatergic states that occur during early abstinence and involves iono (NMDA)- and metabotrotropic (mGluR5) glutamate receptors along with augm...

Philosophical Issues in Ecology: Recent Trends and Future Directions

Philosophy of ecology has been slow to become established as an area of philosophical interest, but it is now receiving considerable attention. This area holds great promise for the advancement of both ecology and the philosophy of science. Insights from the philosophy of science can advance ecology in a number of ways. For example, philosophy can assist with the development of improved models ...