The given table suggests how you might systematically approach each article where you can both manage and analyze the content and record any ideas that arise from your analysis. your chosen research path at the expense of others. Table 1 suggests how you might systematically approach each article, such that you can both manage and analyse the content and record any ideas that arise from your analysis. Table 1: Identifying your research gap Existing scholarship Prompt questions What does the article say? article? What is good or bad Where is the gap in this about it? What assumptions has it made to say these things? What methods has it used to research its conclusions? What should have been done differently that was not included in this article? Which assumptions or methods has it excluded to reach its conclusions? Exercise Research space In text exercise Which of these excluded elements might be used productively in context? - Moving forward... of the excluded elements you have identified, which are relevant to your research? What might you do with these elements? How do the excluded elements fit into the broader structure of accounting and finance research? How could the excluded elements be explored/explained/fit into a theoretical or methodological perspective? How will you access the necessary data to address the excluded elements? What might come after the excluded elements have been critically addressed? 1. 2. 3. 5. Source: Denedo, M., MacLaren, A. & Hill, E. (2016) "Chapter 2 Formulating a Research Project" In: Paterson, A., Leung, D., Jackson, W.(., MacIntosh, R. & O'Gorman, K.D. (ed). Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers