Entrepreneurs of the self: The development of management control since 1976

C Cooper - Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2015 - Elsevier
This review article considers some of the key management control articles published in AOS
through the theoretical lens of Foucault's 1978/9 lectures on neo-liberalism and biopolitics …

Accounting and social capital: A review and reflections on future research opportunities

C de Villiers, M La Torre, V Botes - Accounting & Finance, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We explore how the concept of social capital is used and theorised in accounting research
by performing a structured literature review, and a critical analysis, of articles published in …

Accounts of change: 30 years of historical accounting research

CJ Napier - Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2006 - Elsevier
Over the past three decades, a desire to understand the processes of change within
accounting, and the contribution made by accounting to broader societal and organizational …

Interrogating accountability: An illustration of the use of Leximancer software for qualitative data analysis

K Crofts, J Bisman - Qualitative Research in Accounting & …, 2010 - emerald.com
Purpose–The paper has a dual purpose, being to report on an interrogation of concepts and
contexts of accountability used in the accounting literature and to illustrate the application of …

Accounting for the fictitious: A Marxist contribution to understanding accounting's roles in the financial crisis

C Cooper - Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a contribution to the debates surrounding the culpability of accounting
in the recent financial crisis. It adopts a Marxist theoretical perspective concentrating mainly …

Calculating profit: A historical perspective on the development of capitalism

JS Toms - Accounting, organizations and society, 2010 - Elsevier
The paper introduces the notion of different methods of calculating and analysing profitability
as signatures of capitalism at different stages of development. Its point of departure is Bryer's …

The role of structure and agency in management accounting control change of a family owned firm: A Greek case study

K Stergiou, J Ashraf, S Uddin - Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2013 - Elsevier
This study seeks to understand the changes in management accounting controls in a large
Greek company (pseudonym: FA), with a focus on understanding the role of structure and …

Military,'managers' and hegemonies of management accounting controls: A critical realist interpretation

J Ashraf, S Uddin - Management Accounting Research, 2015 - Elsevier
The paper brings to light the horizontal dimension of hegemony, ie the relationship between
dominant social groups as they form a 'power bloc'and its significance for management …

Poststructuralism against poststructuralism: Actor-network theory, organizations and economic markets

JM Roberts - European Journal of Social Theory, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years, actor-network theory (ANT) has become an increasingly influential
theoretical framework through which to analyse economic markets and organizations …

Map** and exploring the topography of contemporary financial accounting research

R Brown, M Jones - The British Accounting Review, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper reports on a review of 1055 papers in the financial accounting literature
published in eleven leading accounting journals in the period 2002 to 2007 inclusive. In …