Comparison between three research papers

by
Khaled Mahmoud Gomaa Rizk Khattab

Premaster’s task
Submitted to the Department of Accounting
at Faculty of Commerce (English section)
Cairo University

Course Title: Research Methods For Business Students

Lecturer: Dr. Shahinaz
Date: April 6th, 2024

Cost Accounting in small
Title sized Japanese companies:
An exploratory study
Trevor Hopper, Tsutomu
Author / Year Koga, and Jitsuo Goto
(1999)
Publishing Accounting and Business
Journal Research
The research aims to
investigate and understand
the nature of cost
Research Aim management practices,
within small and medium-
sized enterprises (SMEs) in
Kyushu, Japan.
Research
Interpretivism
Paradigm
Research
Exploratory study
Purpose
How Does the FASB Make
Cloud accounting adoption
Decisions? A Descriptive
in Thai SMEs amid the
Study of Agenda-Setting
COVID‑19 pandemic: an
and the Role of Individual
explanatory case study
Board Members
Dalinee Sastararuji,
Danupol Hoonsopon, John (Xuefeng) Jiang,
Pongsakorn Pitchayadol Isabel Yanyan Wang, and
and Pimsiri Chiwamit Daniel D. Wangerin, (2017)
(2022)
Journal of Innovation and Accounting, Organizations
Entrepreneurship and Society
Aims to investigate the
Summarize the reasons
factors that have a
behind the FASB's decision
pervasive influence on
to add or remove projects
cloud accounting adoption
from its agenda.
among SMEs in Thailand
Positivism Positivism
Explanatory study Descriptive Study
1|P age
 Research
Inductive Research Deductive Research Inductive Research
Approach

Research
Qualitative Qualitative Quantitative
Methodology

Research 13 company visits and Case study and triangulated

Archival Research
Method semi-structured interviews sources of evidence

Time horizon Cross-Sectional Cross-Sectional Longitudinal

2|P age