Strategizing Management Accounting - Liberal Origins and Neoliberal Trends

Written by two well-known accounting experts, this book is vital reading for all students of management accounting and will also be a useful supplementary resource for those wanting to understand and research accounting's vital role in contemporary society.

List of contents

Part I: Liberal Origins 1. Old Spirit of Capitalism: the political-economic context of management accounting 2. Old Spirit of Capitalism: the institutional context of management accounting 3. The Practicist Epistemology of Management Accounting 4. The Scientific Epistemology of Management Accounting PART II: Neoliberal Trends
5. Neoliberalization of Management Accounting 6. Strategizing the Firm: strategic discourses of competitive positioning 7. Strategizing the Firm: strategic discourses of organizational reconfiguration 8. Strategizing theFrm: strategic reconfiguration of the production systems – flexibility and quality 9. Strategizing Cost management 10. Strategizing Interfirm Relations 11. Strategizing the State and NPM Agenda 12. Strategizing Civil Society as a Management Accounting Entity 13. Neoliberalization of Corporate Governance 14. Greening the Firm: environmental management accounting 15. Strategizing Development

About the author

Chandana Alawattage is Professor/Chair in Accounting at University of Aberdeen Business School, UK.
Danture Wickramasinghe is Professor/Chair in Management Accounting at Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, UK.

Summary

Written by two well-known accounting experts, this book is vital reading for all students of management accounting and will also be a useful supplementary resource for those wanting to understand and research accounting's vital role in contemporary society.

Product details

• Authors: Chandana Alawattage, Chandana (University of Aberdeen Alawattage, Alawattage Chandana, Danture Wickramasinghe, Wickramasinghe Danture
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.09.2018
• EAN: 9781138783546
• ISBN: 978-1-138-78354-6
• No. of pages: 404
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Accounting / Managerial, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Accounting, Sociology: work & labour, Management accounting & bookkeeping, Sociology: work and labour, Management accounting, bookkeeping and auditing