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Accounting choices: technical and political trade‐offs and the UK’s private finance initiative
Jane Broadbent, Richard LaughlinThe Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is designed to introduce new resources into the national infrastructure. It introduces the idea that the public sector can provide services by…
Development of the accounting profession and practices in the public sector – a hegemonic analysis
Andrew GoddardThis paper uses Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to analyse the development of the public sector accounting profession and accounting practices in the UK since the nineteenth‐century…
Exploring comparative international accounting history
Garry D. Carnegie, Christopher J. NapierAccounting historians have long recognised accounting’s international scope but have typically concentrated their research endeavours on region‐ or country‐specific studies, or on…
Product quality, environmental accounting and quality performance
Alan S. DunkQuality has typically been regarded as a key strategic component of competitive advantage and, therefore, the enhancement of product quality has been a matter of prime interest to…
Genealogical method and analysis
Kate Kearins, Keith HooperThis paper outlines and exemplifies the use of a method for analysing power relations based on the work of French social theorist, Michel Foucault. The overall research aim of…
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- Prof James Guthrie
- Prof Lee Parker