Pioneers of Critical Accounting A Celebration of the Life of Tony Lowe [Hardcover]

This book celebrates the life and work of Tony Lowe, a pioneer ofcritical accounting. The authors elaborate on the fact that Tony Lowe regardedaccounting as a moral and political practice rather than some dry technicalphenomena because it has serious social consequences. The essays in the bookare written by a global community of Tonys former colleagues and students andshow the value of adopting interdisciplinary perspectives. The essays locateaccounting and business practices in wider social, economic and politicalcontexts to show that Tonys ideas had far reaching applications forregulation, corporation governance, accounting, auditing, the environment,corporate social responsibility, organisational accountability, gender, race,globalization and the functioning of the state. The book is suitable forundergraduate and postgraduate students, scholars and practitioners seeking tofree themselves from the shackles of conventional views about accounting andbusiness practices.

Chapter 1) Introduction; Jim Haslam and PremSikka.- Chapter 2) Tony Lowe and the Interdisciplinary and CriticalPerspectives on Accounting Project: Reflections on the Contributions of aUnique Scholar; Richard Laughlin.-Chapter 3) The Man Who Always Asked Why:  The Reflexive Accounting of Tony Lowe; Kerry Jacobs.- Chapter 4) Revisitingcontrol system concepts:  Contingency,cybernetics and the science of the unknowable; Winnie OGrady and Alan Lowe.- Chapter5) Organisational Effectiveness and Social and Environmental Accounting:Through the past darkly; Rob Gray, AideenODochartaigh and Clemence Rannou.- Chapter 6) Thinking About CriticalMethodology; Robin Roslender.-Chapter 7) The sustainable development of a critical accounting project; Jesse Dillard.- Chapter 8) A briefhistorical appreciation of accounting theory? But who calÓ[