Track: Critical Accounting
Track
chairs for Critical Accounting Track:
Alexis Downs downsale@emporia.edu
and WilliamSmith smith@nmsu.edu
Alexis Downs, Associate Professor of Accounting Emporia State University, Department
of Accounting and Computer Information Systems Box 4057, Cremer Hall Rm 110
Emporia, Kansas 66801-5087
William
Smith, Assistant Professor of Accounting,New Mexico State University,
Department of Accounting and Business Computer Systems, Box 30001, Business
Complex, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003-8001
Critical Accounting track - Call for Papers
The Critical Accounting track
particularly invites submissions related on the impact of Critical Accounting
on organizational or social democracy or the lack their of in our time. Submissions
related to other aspects of Management and Spirituality are also invited.
The Critical Accounting track of Sc’Moi aims to explore the territory
of accounting and its connection to social, political, and ecological problems.
Unlike the traditional accounting genre that centers on the production and reporting
schema of financial numbers, the critical accounting genre is more centered
on the communication and related storytelling network aspects of the financial
information disseminated by the organization and the environmental reactions.
According to Scott, among the various flows connecting system elements, the
flow of information is the most critical. One only needs to consider the ethical,
political, and social dilemmas and paradigm shifts in light of the recurring
episodes of corporate malfeasance. The Critical Accounting track particularly
invites submissions related on the impact of Critical Accounting on organizational
or social democracy or the lack their of in our time and the environmental responses.
Research areas can include the following:
• Accounting's implication in the exercise or misuse of power
• Accounting's role in the processes of performance evaluation
• The environmental impacts within and between organizations
• The complicity of management roles and accounting roles
• Complicity and culpability
• The existential crisis of fraud in organizations
• Micro ethical dilemmas and macro social impacts
• Management’s role in the numerical storytelling network
• Accounting’s role in democracy at work and within the environment
• Accounting's involvement in social conflicts
These are but a few of the vast potential areas whereby a critical accounting
perspective can be applied to illuminate the underlying dynamics of organizational
interactions within the environment.
Send your
abstract to Track chairs for Critical Accounting Track:
Alexis Downs adowns@ucok.edu and William
Smith smith@nmsu.edu
by October 15, 2004
Contact Info:
Alexis Downs, Associate Professor of Accounting Emporia State University, Department
of Accounting and Computer Information Systems Box 4057, Cremer Hall Rm 110
Emporia, Kansas 66801-5087 Phone: 620-341-5693 E-mail: downsale@emporia.edu
William Smith, Assistant Professor of Accounting,New Mexico State University,
Department of Accounting and Business Computer Systems, Box 30001, Business
Complex, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003-8001 Phone: 505-646-1422 E-mail: smith@nmsu.edu
Contributions will appear in a peer reviewed conference proceedings and will be screened for potential inclusion in the two affiliated journals Journal of Organizational Change Management and Tamara: The Journal of Critical Postmodern Organisation Science.
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