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Titolo |
Accounting, organizations, and institutions [[electronic resource] ] : essays in honour of Anthony Hopwood / / edited by Christopher S. Chapman, David J. Cooper, and Peter B. Miller |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-964460-8 |
9786612346576 |
1-282-34657-1 |
0-19-157086-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (458 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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HopwoodAnthony G |
ChapmanChristopher S |
CooperDavid (David J.) |
MillerPeter <1954-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Accounting |
Accounting - Social aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgement; List of Abbreviations; 1. Linking Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions; 2. Everyday Accounting Practices and Intentionality; 3. Institutional Perspectives on the Internationalization of Accounting; 4. Studying Accounting in Action: The Challenge of Engaging with Management Accounting Practice; 5. Management Accounting in a Digital and Global Economy: The Interface of Strategy, Technology, and Cost Information |
6. Organizationally Oriented Management Accounting Research in the United States: A Case Study of the Diffusion of a Radical Research Innovation7. On the Relationship between Accounting and Social Space; 8. What is the Object of Management? How Management Technologies Help to Create Manageable Objects; 9. Governance and Its Transnational Dynamics: Towards a Reordering of our World?; 10. |
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Governing Audit Globally: IFAC, the New International Financial Architecture and the Auditing Profession; 11. The Study of Controller Agency; 12. Sketch of Derivations in Wall Street and Atlantic Africa |
13. Behavioural Studies of the Effects of Regulation on Earnings Management and Accounting Choice14. Accounts of Science; 15. Financial Accounting without a State; 16. Socio-Political Studies of Financial Reporting and Standard-Setting; 17. On the Eclipse of Professionalism in Accounting: An Essay; 18. All Offshore: The Sprat, the Mackerel, Accounting Firms, and the State in Globalization; Bibliography of Anthony Hopwood's Writings; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Accounting has an ever-increasing significance in contemporary society. Indeed, some argue that its practices are fundamental to the development and functioning of modern capitalist societies. We can see accounting everywhere: in organizations where budgeting, investing, costing, and performance appraisal rely on accounting practices; in financial and other audits; in corporate scandals and financial reporting and regulation; in corporate governance, risk management, andaccountability, and in the corresponding growth and influence of the accounting profession. Accounting, too, is an important |
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