Critical Accounting Interventions

Making Sense of a Story: Illustrations from a Case Study of Enterprise Risk Management

“…( Cooper & Hopper, 2006, p. 209) Defining critical accounting is crucial though doing this in general terms is very difficult and problematic as the literature proposes many definitions and classifications (Broadbent, 2002;Cooper & Hopper, 2006;Jones & Dugdale, 2001;Laughlin, 1999;Neu, Cooper, & Everett, 2001). My study follows Cooper and Hopper (2006) proposition about the four contributions to our knowledge critical MA studies added to our understanding about MAC: Following this proposition, the current research proposes that social reality consists of real relations that are interacting within macro/micro social, political, and economic struggles.…”

Be(com)ing the chief financial officer of an organisation: Experimenting with Bourdieu's practice theory

“…Oakes et al, 1998;Neu et al, 2001;Goddard, 2004;Ahrens and Chapman, 2007). The seeming relevance and potential of his work in relation to this warrants more concerted experimentation with it.…”

The societal relevance of management accounting: An introduction to the special issue

“…In contrast to institutional theory and ANT, management accounting research applying various critical theories has long had an explicit ambition to highlight and, at least occasionally, intervene in organisational and societal processes causing particular constituencies and interests to become marginalised (Neu et al 2001, Cooper and. However, in doing so, critical accounting scholars have often sought to deliberately distance their research agenda from more managerialist debates on the relevance of management accounting (Roslender 1996).…”