Assignment
1. Create a common preface or header to place at the top of all your deconstructions, briefly describing the nature and purpose of the deconstructions for your personal use and (perhaps) that of colleagues.
2. A full citation of the article, with no abbreviations of journal names, etc.
3. Keywords that specify, at a minimum, the problem of practice and the main theory of the piece of literature.
4. Who should read this article and why.
a. Types of decision-makers who would benefit from reading the review - exactly which scholarly practitioners and practical academics?
b. The problem(s) of practice - the managerial decisions/problems/opportunities on which the source piece of literature offers potential insights.
c. The main theory and how close or far it is from the particular managerial context in which it was studied (i.e., emic or etic, concept-near or concept-far; level of abstraction).
d. Reasons why you, the deconstruction's author, chose this article as relevant to own research domain, in competition with other pieces of scholarly literature.
5. Methods
a. Type of literature - Empirical-Qualitative, Empirical-Quantitative, Conceptual (theoretical), Review of Research-Systematic, Review of Research-Literary.
b. If empirical,
i. the setting and sample of the study.
ii. Nature of data collected
iii. Method of data analysis
iv. An assessment of the study's rigor, based on its methods and the journal in which it was published.
c. If not empirical, a short description of the piece's basic approach that indicates how it achieves scholarly rigor.
d. A methodological aspect of the piece of literature that you desire to emulate or avoid in their own work.
6. Conceptual Framework
a. The research question of the study.
b. A description of the piece's key concepts and how they are brought together into a framework. (The deconstruction's author should look up 3 or 4 key cited works in order to properly describe the main concepts. See # 10 below.) The main proposition or hypothesis, if any, proposed by the author.
c. A deconstruction (not simply an assessment) of the author's logic and line of argument in creating the conceptual framework, including stylistic devices intended to persuade the reader.
7. Findings - A description of the main/selected findings and discussion of their potential application to your own research interests.
8. Caveats about the applications to practice claimed by the author - for instance, ability of the findings to be generalized or ability of the concepts to travel to other contexts, or doubts about some aspect of the piece's rigor.
9. The piece's published (scholarly) abstract, if one is available.
10. Review 3 key pieces of literature cited in this study that you intend to pursue for your own research.
For each of 3 selected pieces of cited literature, find the abstract or (better) scan the actual piece and report here
A full bibliographic citation;
A short summary of the piece's methods and key ideas/findings/theory and their potential connection to your research.
You need not repeat any information that you have already presented in #6 above. Do list here the full citations, plus any additional information not noted in #6, including how it might influence your own research.
Article: The Incremental Bene?ts of a Forensic Accounting Course on Skepticism and Fraud-Related Judgments by Tina D. Carpenter, Cindy Durtschi, and Lisa Milici Gaynor.