Accounting, Accountants and Accountability: Poststructuralist Positions

ISBN-13: 9781138145801 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 184 str.

Norman Macintosh

Opis

Drawing upon the work of eminent thinkers such as Barthes, Baudrillard, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard and Bahktin, Macintosh develops revolutionary insights into the introduction of contemporary poststructuralist ideas into accounting theory.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Structuralism and Poststructuralism  3. Literary Theory and Accounting  4. Simulacra and Hyperreality  5. Surveillance, Discipline and Punishment  6. Accounting and Truth  7. Heteroglossic Accounting

O autorze

Norman Belding Macintosh, Professor Emeritus at Queen’s University Canada, has held visiting professorships at various international institutions, and has consulted for major corporations. He has been awarded the Canadian Academic Accounting Association awards for Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Thought, and for Outstanding Contribution to Accounting Education, and he has edited for and published in a number of accounting journals. He has served as chairperson of the Accounting, Behavior and Organizations section of the American Accounting Association. His previous books received world-wide acclaim.