Accounting, the social and the political : classics, contemporary and beyond.

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Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:Amsterdam ; San Diego, CA : Elsevier, 2005.
Description:xiv, 402 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5792040
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Other authors / contributors:Macintosh, Norman B.
Hopper, Trevor, 1946-
ISBN:0080447252
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Classics
  • The Roles of Accounting in Organizations and Society
  • Designing Semi-Confusing Information Systems for Organizations in Changing Environments
  • Towards a Political Economy of Accounting: An Empirical Illustration of the Cambridge Controversies
  • The Value of Corporate Accounting Reports: Arguments for a Political Economy of Accounting
  • Making Sense of Research into the Organizational and Social Aspects of Management Accounting: A Review of Its Underlying Assumptions
  • Radical Developments in Accounting Thought
  • Accounting Systems and Systems of AccountabilityUnderstanding Accounting Practices in Their Organizational Context
  • The Archaeology of Accounting Systems
  • Accounting and the Construction of the Governable Person
  • Accounting Systems in Organisational Contexts: A Case for Critical Theory
  • Accounting as a Legitimating Institution
  • Letting the Chat Out of the Bag: Deconstruction, Privilege and Accounting Research
  • Part 2. Contemporary
  • Cost Accounting, Controlling Labour and the Rise of Conglomerates
  • From the Union Hall: A Labor Critique of the New Manufacturing and Accounting Regimes
  • From Taylorism to Ms Taylor: The Transformation of the Accounting Craft
  • Annual Reports in an Ideological Role: A Critical Theory Analysis
  • Organizational Change and Accounting: Understanding the Budgeting System in Its Organizational Context
  • Management Accounting as Disciplinary Practice: The Case of ITT Under Harold Geneen
  • The Relationship Between Accounting and Spatial Practices in the Factory
  • Decision-Making in the theater of Consciousness: A Theater Metaphor for Conscious Experience and the Holistic Concept of Man in Understanding the User of Accounting Information
  • Accounting in Other Wor(l)ds: A Feminism Without Reserve
  • CATS, RATS, and EARS: Making the Case for Ethnographic Accounting Research
  • Structuration Theory in Management Accounting
  • Theoretical Approaches to Research on Accounting Ethics
  • The Concept of an Accounting Regime
  • When Culture Matters: Processes of Organizational Learning and Transformation
  • A Termite Theory of Accounting Information Systems Research
  • Part 3. Beyond
  • Homogeneity or Heterogeneity of Research in Management Accounting
  • Hyperreal Finance
  • Accounting as Simalacrum and Hyperreality: Perspectives on Income and Capital
  • A Literacy Theory Perspective on Accounting: Towards Heteroglossic Accounting Reports
  • Business Planning as Pedagogy: Language and Control in a Changing Institutional Field
  • Changes in the Institutional Environment and the Institutions of Governance: xtending the Contributions of Transaction Cost Economics Within the Management Control Literature
  • Ethics and Accountability: From the For-Itself to The For-the-Other
  • Accounting for God: Accounting and Accountability Practices in the Society of Jesus (Italy, XVI-XVII Centuries)
  • Part 4. Future Prospects