CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING

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An International Journal for Social and Organizational Accountability AIMS AND SCOPE
Critical Perspectives on Accounting provides a forum for accounting researchers and practitioners who realize that
EDITORS conventional theory and practice is ill-suited to the challenges of the modern environment, and that accounting practices and
corporate behavior are inextricably connected with many allocative, distributive, social and ecological problems of our era.
Marcia Annisette Christine Cooper Dean Neu From such concerns, a new literature seeks to reformulate corporate, social and political activity, and the theoretical and
Schulich School of Business, Department of Accounting and Schulich School of Business, practical means by which we apprehend and affect that activity.
York University Finance York University
NOTES OF GUIDANCE TO CONTRIBUTORS
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• an abstract not exceeding 150 words – it should summarize the purpose, methodology, and major conclusions of the article;
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University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada • Footnotes, identified in the text by a numeral that is superscripted, should not include literature citations, and should be
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• Literature citations in the text should include the authors’ names, the year of publication, and the specific page numbers
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C.R. Baker (Adelphi University, Garden City, USA) G. Lehman (University of South Australia, Adelaide, to the surname of the first author. Full bibliographical details are required. The following style is required for: 1. articles; 2.
A.J. Briloff (City University of New York, New York, USA) Australia) books; 3. citations from edited books; 4. translated books; 5. reference to a report. For example:
1. Du Boff, R. B. & Herman, E. S. “Alfred Chandler’s New Business History: A Review”, Politics & Society, Vol. 10, No.1,
J. Broadbent (Roehampton University, London, UK) K. Mcphail (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)
1980, pp. 87–110.
R. Bryer (University of Warwick, Coventry, UK) B. Merino (University of North Texas, Denton, USA) 2. Anderson, P., Considerations on Western Marxism (London: New Left Review Books, 1976).
S. Carmona (Instituto de Empresa, Madrid, Spain) J. Mouritsen (Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, 3. Hall, S., “The Little Caesars of Social Democracy”, in S. Hall and M. Jacques (eds), The Politics of Thatcherism, pp. 309–322
E. Chiapello (HEC School of Management, Denmark) (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1983).
Jouy-en-Josas, France) L. Oakes (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA) 4. Adorno, T. W. Negative Dialektic (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1966). Negative Dialectics, E. B. Ashton (trans) (New York:
S. Clegg (University of Technology, Broadway, Australia) L. Parker (University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia) Seabury Press, 1973).
M.A. Covaleski (University of Wisdonsin, Madison, USA) P. Quattrone (IE University, Madrid, Spain) 5. Joint WHO Committee on Multinational Expansion. The Role of the Multinational in Health and Safety Developments
B. Czarniawska (University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, A. Rahaman (University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada) (Geneva: World Health Organisation, 1982, Technical Report Series 503).
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