Accounting historians engaging with scholars inside and outside accounting: Issues, opportunities and obstacles
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A discussion on the issues, opportunities and obstacles which may arise when accounting history is used in the context of accounting history was presented at the 8 Accounting History International Conference as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
Originating in a panel presentation at the eighth Accounting History International Conference, this study offers a reflection on the issues, opportunities and obstacles which may arise when account...read more
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The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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A Brief History of Time From the Big Bang to Black Holes
TL;DR: Near-death theory and near-death research reciprocally help explain some of the unanswered questions posed by Hawking, as he takes the reader through explanations of the very tiniest bits of matter to the very boundary of a vast universe.
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Accounting history and theorising about organisations
TL;DR: The emergence of a range of theories that have been employed by accounting historians, against the background of the development of accounting history as a significant disciplinary field within accounting research, is discussed in this paper.
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Accounting and governance in diverse settings – an introduction:
TL;DR: A special issue of Accounting History on the theme "Accounting and governance in diverse settings" as discussed by the authors was published in 2017, with a focus on the relationship between accounting and governance.
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The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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Theory Building From Cases: Opportunities And Challenges
TL;DR: The research strategy of theory building from cases, particularly multiple cases, involves using one or more cases to create theoretical constructs, propositions, and/or midrange theory from case-based, empirical evidence.
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On trying to study accounting in the contexts in which it operates
TL;DR: In many cases the forms taken by decision processes, the structuring of organizational activities and even the specification of an organizational boundary are not independent of the accounting representation of them as mentioned in this paper.
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Accounting as social and institutional practice
Anthony G. Hopwood,Peter Miller +1 more
TL;DR: The early double-entry bookkeeping and the rhetoric of accounting calculation Grahame Thompson as mentioned in this paper, and the genesis of accounting's modern power are discussed in detail in the introduction of this paper.
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Accounting in its social context: Towards a history of value added in the United Kingdom
TL;DR: The relationship between accounting and society has been posited frequently, but it has been subjected to little systematic analysis as discussed by the authors, and the implications of these for the social analysis of accounting are discussed.