Accountability Research Ethnographic Methods in Organisation and Accounting

Synopsis

This book discusses (auto- )ethnographies of accountability, undertaken (in close collaboration) by a multinational group of accounting and organization theory researchers over a period of three years. The key assumption underlying the book is that accountability is inherently an identity- creating process where the study of account- making has to be done participatively, with radical openness to the one(s) being researched, as well as to their context. That openness we call ‘ethnography’. The values or assumptions inherent to the practices of account and identity-making, in a specific context, are what (auto- )ethnographies seek to describe and identify. These values and assumptions warrant critical, ethical reflection, and this is what the researchers presented here have tried to provide.The chapters in this book all are mini- studies of relatedness. The scale of examination is intimate; the reflections provided by the researchers are mainly methodological.This book is of interest to accounting and organization theory students and scholars who believe that accountability can fruitfully be studied through (auto-) ethnography. The book extends currently existing views on how accountability can be handled and discharged between researchers and their researched, when local, intimate settings are studied.

Book details

Series:

Business for Society

Author:

Hugo Letiche, Ivo De Loo, Carolyn Cordery, Jean-Luc Moriceau

ISBN:

9781040090190

Related ISBNs:

9781040090176, 9781032442891, 9781003371441

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Pages:

N/A

Reading age:

Not specified

Includes images:

Yes

Date of addition:

2024-07-12

Usage restrictions:

Copyright

Copyright date:

2025

Copyright by:

selection and editorial matter, Hugo Letiche, Ivo De Loo, Carolyn Cordery and Jean-Luc Moriceau 

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Categories:

Business and Finance, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Nonfiction, Sociology