Pioneers of Critical Accounting

A Celebration of the Life of Tony Lowe
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-54211-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 327 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 573 g

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

are written by a global community of Tony’s former colleagues and students and

show the value of adopting interdisciplinary perspectives. The essays locate

accounting and business practices in wider social, economic and political

contexts to show that Tony’s ideas had far reaching applications for

regulation, corporation governance, accounting, auditing, the environment,

corporate social responsibility, organisational accountability, gender, race,

globalization and the functioning of the state. The book is suitable for

undergraduate and postgraduate students, scholars and practitioners seeking to

free themselves from the shackles of conventional views about accounting and

business practices.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sikka, Prem

Haslam, Jim

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensfinanzen Betriebliches Rechnungswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Jim Haslam is Professor of Accounting, Governance and Society
at the University of Sheffield, UK. His career in academia now spans over
thirty years. He has published widely in several leading journals and is joint
author (with Sonja Gallhofer) of Accounting
and Emancipation: Some Critical Interventions.

Prem Sikka is
Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex, UK. He has advised and
given evidence to parliamentary committees. He holds the Working for Justice Award from Tax Justice
Network, Accounting Exemplar Award from the American Accounting
Association and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Accounting and
Finance Association and PQ Magazine.