The ‘internationalisation’ of accounting history publishing

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2015) 'The`internationalisation' of accounting history publishing.', British accounting review., 47 (2). pp. 117-123. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bar. 2014.11.003 Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in The British Accounting Review. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be re ected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A de nitive version was subsequently published in The British Accounting Review, 47, 2, June 2015, 10.1016/j.bar.2014.11.003. Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. delegates from across the world and 119 papers were presented -66% from academics from four countries (Italy, Turkey, UK and US). Most of these papers (75%) covered the period from 1800onwards. This paper sets out the contextual framework in which the papers presented at the World Congress should be viewed with particular reference to the problems faced by non-AngloSaxon academics trying to publish in English-language journals. It then introduces the papers accepted for the special issue, highlighting some of the overlapping themes. These papers cover a wider range of topics than is usual in English-speaking journals (two relating to British Shipbuilding, one on accounting developments from Mesopotamia to today, one on Japanese accounting in World War II and two on medieval accounting (in England and Turkey).

Moving from regional to international publishing in accounting history: Pressures, issues, strategies and implications

“…This may be followed by a move to publication in English with abstracts in the national language and other main languages. However, editors of international journals may also contribute by starting to publish “a regular feature of extended foreign-language abstracts translated into English”, this measure would “help increase communication between researchers from different countries, suggest new opportunities that otherwise might be missed, and widen the pool of accounting knowledge” (Jones and Oldroyd, forthcoming: 19).…”

“…Researchers from countries with such conditions should continue to build upon the rich and long history of the country, as well as the precious and often ancient archival sources. This would allow researchers to contribute to the accounting history literature by exploring underexplored periods of time and themes neglected in accounting history research, preventing the potential scenario of “a loss of knowledge and information about other places and situations; leading to incomplete and inadequate contextual analysis on the part of accounting research at large” (Jones and Oldroyd, forthcoming: 12, emphasis in original).…”

“…The personal views of the authors are supported by the analysis of the academic situation of accounting history research in each of the four countries, drawing upon previous works which have examined the publication patterns of the accounting history literature in generalist (or mainstream) and specialist accounting history journals, and in the Latin and Anglo-Saxon journals (Carnegie and Porter, 2000; Lemarchand, 2000; Carmona and Zan, 2002; Carmona, 2004; Carnegie and Rodrigues, 2007; Cinquini and Marelli, 2007; Faria, 2008; Giovannoni and Riccaboni, 2009; Baños and Gutiérrez, 2010, 2011; Antonelli and D’Alessio, 2011; Gomes et al, 2011; Bisman, 2012; Hernández, 2013; Jones and Oldroyd, forthcoming). We extended some of these studies by analysing the more recent publication patterns of accounting history scholars with affiliations to institutions in the countries which are within the study’s sample.…”

survey of published works in De Computis (2004-2019)

“…The 19 th century is a crucial period in the evolution of Italian accounting thought; therefore, this century attracts accounting historians' attention (Antonelli and D'Alessio, 2014). Similarly, 75% of the papers submitted to the 13 th World Congress of Accounting Historians covered the 19 th and the 20 th centuries (Jones and Oldroyd, 2015). According to Carnegie and Potter (2000:192), 70% of the studies in the three specialist accounting history journals 1 concentrate on the 20 th century.…”

The Development of Accounting History Research in Japan

“…For such purposes, it is indispensable to publish new researches in international journals. As Jones and Oldroyd point out, however, it is not easy to overcome obstacles to the internationalization such as differences in research practice and language barrier (Jones and Oldroyd 2016). In addition, research activities cannot be entirely internationalized.…”