Pioneers of Critical Accounting A Celebration of the Life of Tony Lowe /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Haslam, Jim (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Sikka, Prem (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Θέματα: Finance.; Social responsibility of business.; Accounting.; Financial Accounting.; Corporate Social Responsibility.

This book celebrates the life and work of Tony Lowe, a pioneer of critical accounting. The authors elaborate on the fact that Tony Lowe regarded accounting as a moral and political practice rather than some dry technical phenomena because it has serious social consequences. The essays in the book ar...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1) Introduction; Jim Haslam and Prem Sikka
• Chapter 2) Tony Lowe and the Interdisciplinary and Critical Perspectives on Accounting Project: Reflections on the Contributions of a Unique Scholar; Richard Laughlin
• Chapter 3) The Man Who Always Asked Why: The Reflexive Accounting of Tony Lowe; Kerry Jacobs
• Chapter 4) Revisiting control system concepts: Contingency, cybernetics and the science of the unknowable; Winnie O’Grady and Alan Lowe
• Chapter 5) Organisational Effectiveness and Social and Environmental Accounting: Through the past darkly; Rob Gray, Aideen O’Dochartaigh and Clemence Rannou
• Chapter 6) Thinking About Critical Methodology; Robin Roslender
• Chapter 7) The “sustainable development” of a critical accounting project; Jesse Dillard
• Chapter 8) A brief historical appreciation of accounting theory? But who cares?; Michael Gaffikin
• Chapter 9) Informings for Control and Emancipatory Interests in Accounting: New Reflections on the Intellectual Emancipation of Accounting and the Possibilities of Emancipatory Accountings; Jim Haslam
• Chapter 10) Think Different: Accounting as a Systems Theorist: Gender, Race and Class; Cheryl R. Lehman
• Chapter 11) A Critical Look at the IASB; Geoff Whittington; A Critical Analysis of the Balanced Scorecard: Towards a More Dialogic Approach; David Cooper and Mahmoud Ezzamel; Chapter 12) Re-imagining The Corporation: The Relevance of Legal, Economic and Political Imaginaries; Hugh Willmott and Jeroen Veldman; Chapter 13) Big Four Accounting Firms: Addicted to Tax Avoidance; Prem Sikka.