Disability and the Socialization of Accounting Professionals

Ladva, Puja

doi:10.1080/0969160x.2012.718907

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“…By economic inequality, we refer to disparities in how income or wealth is distributed within or between nations (Milanovic, 2016;Wesley and Peterson, 2017). So defined, economic inequality is both narrower and broader than other types of inequity prior accounting research explores, such as gender and racial inequality (Carnegie and Lehman, 2012;Kyriakidou et al, 2016), the experiences of accountants with disabilities (Duff and Ferguson, 2011;Ladva, 2012) and the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender accountants (Egan, 2018;Unerman, 2018). Economic inequality is narrower because income and wealth is just one dimension of inequality.…”

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Economic inequality: problems and perspectives for interdisciplinary accounting research

Tweedie

Hazelton

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to encourage and advance interdisciplinary accounting research on economic inequality. Design/methodology/approach The authors review prior research into economic inequality, including two new papers in this issue, to identify topics where economic inequality and accounting research intersect. The authors then draw on prior accounting research to identify frameworks accounting scholars already use apposite to analysing these topics. Findings Economic inequality cuts across major accounting topics, including measurement, reporting and tax. Inequality also bears on an influential agenda in interdisciplinary accounting research to hold corporations and states accountable for their impacts. Four prior research frameworks accounting scholars might apply to this agenda are: critical Marxian or post-Marxian; accounting ethics; advocacy; and disclosure studies. Social implications A growing body of social scientific research, as well as influential global institutions, social movements and political debates, raise concerns over inequitable global distributions of wealth and income. The authors explore ways accounting scholars can help redress these inequities. Originality/value While economic inequality affects billions of people, accounting scholarship is yet to give these inequities the attention their scale and social impact merits. The authors suggest ways accounting researchers can make substantive contributions to addressing this issue.

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