ABSTRACT Professional engagement helps students develop professional judgment, connect their coursework to the “real world,” and explore accounting-related careers. Internships often provide a route these benefits, but some cannot complete internships. The Pathways Commission calls for new, creative approaches engagement. In ethics interview exercise, engage with professionals single interview....

OBJECTIVE To assess parents' perceptions of their experience being interviewed after the sudden, unexpected death of their child. DESIGN Case-control study in which cases were victims of unintentional drowning. SETTING Households of recent drowning victims in 6 states in the United States. PARTICIPANTS Caregivers (primarily parents) of 87 cases and 491 matched controls were interviewed vi...

Purpose – This paper aims to focus on liquidity management in small firms and how this may be best met. It seeks to present results from eight case study firms to demonstrate different types of learning in small firms. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a qualitative methodology that involves in-depth, semi-structured interviews and direct observation, conducted longitudinally in eigh...

Clients who had completed psychotherapy were interviewed about the significant experiences and moments they recalled within their sessions. These interviews were analyzed using grounded theory, creating a hierarchy of categories that represent what clients find important in therapy. From the hermeneutic analysis of the content of these categories, a list of principles was constructed to guide t...

Online dating sites require users to reveal information about themselves to find potential matches, yet users must also be wary of potential security and privacy threats. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 10 participants to better understand the various methods they employ to maintain their personal security and privacy while arranging to meet strangers in person. Specifically, we as...

Purpose This study aims to extend understanding of business-to-business relationship dynamics by introducing and discussing the phenomenon of a 'negative critical wave' (NCW), defined as a disturbance in a relationship that emerges and develops within or beyond individual working relationships. Design/methodology/approach The dynamics of working relationships in two manufacturing firms in Finla...

This study investigates teachers’ understanding of underlying unit structures including: the relationship between lessons and curriculum design principles; and the connections among lessons in a unit. We investigated: (1) teachers’ understanding of curriculum design principles; and (2) the role of teachers’ experiences with curriculum units in their understanding of underlying unit structures. ...

In this article I am going to discuss the challenge in researching sensitive subjects and some of the ways this can be overcome by adopting a reflexive approach to conducting qualitative research. These particular challenges are detailed in relation to data collected from in-depth interviews from men and women bereaved by the death of their child following stillbirth and neonatal death. I discu...

The participants’ study participation experiences in an intensive research methodology that examined recent aborted suicide attempts were explored. Individuals aged 18 or above and whose suicide attempts were voluntarily aborted after the suicide crisis negotiation with the police negotiators were interviewed and followed up at 1 and 3 months after the initial interview. Eleven participants gav...

This paper describes an analog chat network in Bandung, Indonesia known as ‘interkom.’ Interkom is a network that links together the homes, food stalls and farms of a segment of Bandung’s urban and peri-urban underclass. Interkom is interesting because it provides the occasion for users to reflect upon and manipulate the material and ideological conditions that shape experiences of self, talk a...