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Table of Contents of Accounting’s Changing Role in Social Conflict (Critical Accounting Research)

Introduction — Accounting crises in the 1990s.
The Roles of Accounting in Society — Examining professional myths, challenging market and management ideology.
Truth of Consequences: The Social Production of Knowledge — Reproducing knowledge, the social construction of ideas, and critical theorizing.
Social Conflict, the State, and the Role of Accounting Literature — Managing conflict, economic crises, and transformation of hegemonic discourses.
The Discursive Realm of Business and Accounting — The role of accounting literature and discursive practices in contemporary capitalism: interpreting the evidence.
Signs and Symbols: Rediscovering Accounting’s Partisanship — The implications of crafting accounting.