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Use when designing the study for an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — qualitative field studies (access, case logic, interviews, observation), behavioral experiments, surveys, historical/archival inquiry, or theory-laden archival designs, each with the ethics and site-anonymity groundwork done early. Designs the inquiry; it does not run the coding or estimation (aos-data-analysis).

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# Research Design & Methods (aos-methods)

## When to trigger

- Choosing between field study, experiment, survey, or historical design for a settled question
- Negotiating field access, case selection, or interview/observation protocols
- Designing manipulations and participant pools for a behavioral experiment
- Ethics approval, informed consent, or site-anonymity commitments are still open
- A reviewer says the design cannot support the paper's interpretive or causal claims

## Methodological pluralism, single standard

AOS accepts any method suited to studying accounting's social operation, and holds each to the rigor bar of its own tradition. The design must let the *theoretical lens* meet the *empirical material* on fair terms — enough depth for interpretation, enough control for causal process claims, enough sources for historical reconstruction.
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