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This is the online extension to the paper Private Firm Accounting: The European Reporting Environment, Data and Research Perspectives, published by Christof Beuselinck Ferdinand Elfers, Joachim Gassen and Jochen Pierk in Accounting and Business Research. The paper systematically reviews the literature on private firm accounting. We identify studies for the paper and this repository by a semi-automated search process starting with all topical publications in 10 general interest peer-reviewed accounting journals. From these studies we applied snowball sampling to identify additional topical studies that are referenced by our initial studies. The current sample presented by this app covers 144 original research papers and seven overview papers that have been published between 1986 and 2023.

We will add newly published studies regularly so that the data repository remains up-to-date. If you would like to suggest studies published in peer-reviewed journals to add or receive e-mail notifications of updates please send us an email.

 

The application has the following three tabs selectable in the top menu line:

• Select Paper(s): Here you can browse the publications that are included in the repository, select single studies to review additional information or select a set of studies on which you can then view bibliometric analyses.
• Info on Paper: Presents additional information on a selected study.
• Bibliometrics: Presents bibliometric analyses on a selected set of studies, using all studies in the repository as default.

 

Resources

• Journals that were covered by the first sampling step (in alphabetical order): Accounting and Business Research (ABR); Accounting, Organizations, and Society (AOS); Accounting Review (TAR); Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR); European Accounting Review (EAR); Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE); Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (JAPP); Journal of Accounting Research (JAR); Journal of Business, Finance & Accounting (JBFA); and Review of Accounting Studies (RAST).
• R Package used for biliometric analysis Aria, M. & Cuccurullo, C. (2017) bibliometrix: An R-tool for comprehensive science mapping analysis, Journal of Informetrics, 11(4), pp 959-975.