Abstract:A recent innovation in empirical academic research is the use of online labour markets as a source of data. One such market, Amazon's Mechanical Turk ("MTurk") has been used by studies published in high-quality accounting journals to source participants. Given the traction of this data source in high-calibre publications, it is timely to assess its current impact and future potential for accounting research. This paper examines the extent of adoption of MTurk as a data collection tool in leading accounting jou… Show more
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