Handbook of Accounting in Society

Edited by Hendrik Vollmer

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The Handbook of Accounting in Society invites readers to consider the ways in which accounting affects organizations, institutions, communities, professions, and everyday life. Diverse in its reach, this Handbook campaigns for the need to reconsider our understanding of what accounting is and crucially, what it can become.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Environment; Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
ISBN: 9781803921990
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/book/9781803922003/9781803922003.xml (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction to Handbook of Accounting in Society: seeing accountants everywhere , pp 2-7

Hendrik Vollmer

Ch 2 Accounting in society? Accounting and society , pp 9-28

Ann-Christine Frandsen and Keith Hoskin

Ch 3 Accounting in society: a historical perspective , pp 29-43

Karen McBride and Shraddha Verma

Ch 4 The temporalities of financialized accounting , pp 45-57

Adam Leaver

Ch 5 Accounting for values at risk: risk management and moral imagination , pp 58-76

Anette Mikes and Ken Okamura

Ch 6 Accounting for public value , pp 78-90

James Brackley

Ch 7 Reflecting on the ‘ethos’ of public sector accounting: from ‘taken-for-granted’ to ‘plural’ values? , pp 91-106

Jan van Helden and Ileana Steccolini

Ch 8 ‘Management by accounting’: the roles of accounting in agencification , pp 107-122

Budi Waluyo

Ch 9 Accounting for emergency, emergency for accounting: a bibliometric review , pp 123-139

Antonio D’Andreamatteo, Martina Mattioli and Massimo Sargiacomo

Ch 10 Preparing the future: the roles of accounting in public and private pensions , pp 141-154

Cameron Graham

Ch 11 Us and them: the role of accounting in (re)creating social inequality through encounters with tax and welfare administration , pp 155-167

Sara Closs-Davies

Ch 12 The calculation and administration of taxes as an economizing force , pp 168-181

Penelope Tuck, Thomas Cuckston and Dominic de Cogan

Ch 13 Foundations for socio-ecological accounting scholarship , pp 183-193

Jan Bebbington, Giovanna Michelon and Shona Russell

Ch 14 Accounting for gender equality , pp 194-208

Ulrike Marx

Ch 15 Accounting vs. economic inequality - two examples of critical accounting praxis , pp 209-224

Stewart Smyth and James Brackley

Ch 16 Muslim women accountants: the unknown feminists , pp 226-238

Rania Kamla

Ch 17 ‘Accountable creatures’: Christianity and accounting , pp 239-251

Alistair Mutch

Ch 18 Portraying the accountant in popular culture: reflections on The Accountant (2016) movie , pp 253-264

Ingrid Jeacle

Ch 19 Accounting perspectives in the digital world: controlling online interaction , pp 265-278

Penelope Van den Bussche

Ch 20 Activism and accounting , pp 280-293

Colin Dey

Ch 21 Demanding accountability through grass roots activism: the case of service charging in English social housing , pp 294-309

Amanze Ejiogu and Mercy Denedo

Ch 22 The accountability assembly as a counter-accounting performance , pp 310-327

Rebecca Warren, Anne Steinhoff, Konstantinos Roussos and Jason Glynos

Ch 23 Queer accounting voices: accounting academics’ oral stories , pp 328-342

Alessandro Ghio and Theresa Hammond

Ch 24 Postcolonialism in accounting , pp 344-362

Chandana Alawattage

Ch 25 Racism in the accounting academy - an auto-ethnographic case study of British higher education , pp 363-376

Atul K. Shah

Ch 26 Grappling with the angst of accounting: a reflection on the potential of an Indigenous accounting approach , pp 377-385

Glenn Finau

Ch 27 Accounting and biopolitics: an Italian perspective , pp 387-399

Michele Bigoni and Warwick Funnell

Ch 28 Wildlife in human spaces: bringing naturalization and landscape-scale conservation into the sustainable organization , pp 400-414

Thomas Cuckston

Ch 29 Economic rents at the end of life: for-profit eldercare and the myth of corporate accountability , pp 415-428

Cameron Graham, Darlene Himick and Pier-Luc Nappert

Ch 30 Accounting for the good life: accounts that break your heart , pp 429-444

Marie-Astrid Le Theule, Caroline Lambert and Jérémy Morales

Ch 31 Encountering accounting in society , pp 446-458

Hendrik Vollmer, Michele Bigoni, James Brackley, Sara Closs-Davies, Thomas Cuckston, Mercy Denedo, Amanze Ejiogu and Jan van Helden

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eebook:21501

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com
sales@e-elgar.co.uk

Access Statistics for this book

More books in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla (darrel@e-elgar.co.uk).