Doxic sunglasses: A response to “Green accounting and Green Eyeshades: Twenty years later”

Crawford Spence, Nihel Chabrak and Richard Pucci

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, 2013, vol. 24, issue 6, 469-473

Abstract: This article, in responding to Thornton's (this issue) depiction of how accounting might be extended to incorporate environmental issues, offers a critique of mainstream understandings of the accounting function. Specifically, we argue that Thornton's arguments are developed within doxic, or taken-for-granted, parameters regarding what accounting is and what it can be. Expanding the accounting domain whilst staying within these parameters leads to something more than the mere reproduction of the status quo; it leads to intensified commodification of the biosphere.

Keywords: Critique; Environnemental; Intérêt public; Social; Développement durable; Crítica; Ambiental; Interés Público; Social; Sostenibilidad; Critical; Environmental; Public interest; Social; Sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2013.05.002

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