ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the research methodology and methods that are applied in undertaking the research endeavours. It summarises the research methodologies used in the existing social and environmental accounting literature. The chapter discusses the research methods that have been chosen to inquire into the research questions in this study and the justification of choosing them. It presents an outline of the research design for this study. Research methodology describes an approach to a research problem that can be put into practice in a research programme or process, which could be formally defined as an operational framework within which the facts are placed so that their meaning may be discerned clearly. The chapter discusses the two dimensions of research philosophy: ontology and epistemology. Based on ontological and epistemological positions, the.
