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1986
DOI: 10.1016/0361-3682(86)90028-0
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Towards a critical understanding of accounting: The case of cost accounting in the U.K., 1914–1925

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“…Both Miller (1990; and Robson (1991; blended theoretical insights from ANT with the more interpretive approaches to accounting research from the 1980s, especially those drawing on Foucault (e.g., Hoskin & Macve, 1986;Loft, 1986;Miller, 1986) and institutional theory (e.g., Meyer, 1977;Willmott, 1986). Miller (1990) examined how the modern state emerged in the 1600s through the material-semiotic linkage between innovations of accounting techniques and government procedure.…”
Section: Ant and Accountingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Both Miller (1990; and Robson (1991; blended theoretical insights from ANT with the more interpretive approaches to accounting research from the 1980s, especially those drawing on Foucault (e.g., Hoskin & Macve, 1986;Loft, 1986;Miller, 1986) and institutional theory (e.g., Meyer, 1977;Willmott, 1986). Miller (1990) examined how the modern state emerged in the 1600s through the material-semiotic linkage between innovations of accounting techniques and government procedure.…”
Section: Ant and Accountingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…En tanto que la contabilidad permite cuantificar y conocer el rendimiento humano, las escuelas foucauldiana y del proceso de la mano de obra analizan los sistemas de contabilidad de costes como sistemas disciplinarios (Loft, 1986;Miller y O'Leary, 1987;Hoskin y Macve, 1986, o para controlar a la mano de obra (Hopper et al, 1987;Hopper y Amstrong, 1991), respectivamente.…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
“…Accounting in this respect is not understood as "technical" -a neutral set of practicesbut as an integral to the sociopolitical structure of society. Works in this genre include Tinker (1980), Cooper and Sherer (1984), Armstrong (1985Armstrong ( , 1987, Burchell et al (1985), Hopwood (1985), Berry et al (1985), Puxty et al (1987), Miller and O'Leary (1987), Loft (1986), Hoskin and Macve (1986) and Lehman and Tinker (1987). By contextualising accounting in its various aspects, they show accounting to be socially and historically specific.…”
Section: The Environmental Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%