Jack, Lisa
Accounting and social theory : an introduction Lisa Jack - London : Routledge, c2017. - x, 134 p. ; 22 cm.
Why use social theory to study accounting? -- Locating accounting in the social world -- Structure, agency and accounting -- Power, inequality and resistance -- Space, time and change -- Writing and designing empirical research with social theory -- Future directions.
Accounting and Social Theory: An introduction includes advice on research problems as well as guidance on fertile areas for new research. The tools, techniques and developments covered by the author help readers to see social research in accounting as the study of the use, misuse and abuse of accounting communications by people and the effects that this has on social relationships. Stories of accounting in war, agriculture and food, gender, health and other areas illustrate the ways in which the threads of accounting run through society.
9781138100701 9781138100718
2016015203
Accounting--Social aspects
Social sciences--Philosophy
657 JA AC
Accounting and social theory : an introduction Lisa Jack - London : Routledge, c2017. - x, 134 p. ; 22 cm.
Why use social theory to study accounting? -- Locating accounting in the social world -- Structure, agency and accounting -- Power, inequality and resistance -- Space, time and change -- Writing and designing empirical research with social theory -- Future directions.
Accounting and Social Theory: An introduction includes advice on research problems as well as guidance on fertile areas for new research. The tools, techniques and developments covered by the author help readers to see social research in accounting as the study of the use, misuse and abuse of accounting communications by people and the effects that this has on social relationships. Stories of accounting in war, agriculture and food, gender, health and other areas illustrate the ways in which the threads of accounting run through society.
9781138100701 9781138100718
2016015203
Accounting--Social aspects
Social sciences--Philosophy
657 JA AC