Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal: Volume 18 Issue 5

Editorial: Accounting research and the public interest

This essay sets out to introduce the special issue.

Accounting for the public interest: public ineffectuals or public intellectuals?

To present a case for accounting and finance academics to have a more active social role.

The rules are no game: From instrumental rationality to administrative evil

Sees to argues that administrative evil is inherent in the administrative hierarchies currently governing work organizations, and to explore the means by which instrumentally…

Accounting for the public interest: a Japanese perspective

To expand one's understanding about how accounting helps to shape, mediate and constitute the public interest, the private interest, and their relationships.

Public sector reforms and the public interest: A case study of accounting control changes and performance monitoring in a Ghanaian state‐owned enterprise

Aims to examine the changes to budgetary control and performance monitoring in the context of a series of World Bank sponsored public sector reforms.

Accounting and the public interest: All the world's a stage

Seeks to explore the interplay of accounting and the broad social roles and contexts in which it is manifested.

What is the meaning of “the public interest”?: Examining the ideology of the American public accounting profession

To examine the rhetorical claims put forth by several prominent organizations in the American public accounting profession that claim to act in the public interest, and to attempt…

Accounting as codified discourse

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