Front Cover -- Accounting, the Social and the Political: Classics, Contemporary and Beyond -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Classics -- Chapter 1. The Roles of Accounting in Organizations and Society -- Chapter 2. Designing Semi-confusing Information Systems for Organizations in Changing Environments -- Chapter 3. Towards a Political Economy of Accounting: An Empirical Illustration of the Cambridge Controversies -- Chapter 4. The Value of Corporate Accounting Reports: Arguments for a Political Economy of Accounting -- Chapter 5. Making Sense of Research into the Organizational and Social Aspects of Management Accounting: A Review of its Underlying Assumptions -- Chapter 6. Radical Developments in Accounting Thought -- Chapter 7. Accounting Systems and Systems of Accountability - Understanding Accounting Practices in their Organizational Contexts -- Chapter 8. The Archaeology of Accounting Systems -- Chapter 9. Accounting and the Construction of the Governable Person -- Chapter 10 . Accounting Systems in Organizational Contexts: A Case for Critical Theory -- Chapter 11. Accounting as a Legitimating Institution -- Chapter 12. Letting the Chat Out of the Bag: Deconstruction, Privilege and Accounting Research -- Part II: Contemporary -- Chapter 13. Cost Accounting, Controlling Labour and the Rise of Conglomerates -- Chapter 14. From the Union Hall: A Labor Critique of the New Manufacturing and Accounting Regimes -- Chapter 15. From Taylorism to Ms Taylor: The Transformation of the Accounting Craft -- Chapter 16. Annual Reports in an Ideological Role: A Critical Theory Analysis -- Chapter 17. Organizational Change and Accounting: Understanding the Budgeting System in its Organizational Context.

Chapter 18. Management Accounting as Disciplinary Practice: The Case of ITT under Harold Geneen -- Chapter 19. The Relationship between Accounting and Spatial Practices in the Factory -- Chapter 20. Decision-making in the Theater of Consciousness: A Theater Metaphor for Conscious Experience and the Holistic Concept of Man in Understanding the User of Accounting Information -- Chapter 21. Accounting in Other Wor(l)ds: A Feminism Without Reserve -- Chapter 22. CATS, RATS and EARS: Making the Case for Ethnographic Accounting Research -- Chapter 23. Structuration Theory in Management Accounting -- Chapter 24. Theoretical Approaches to Research on Accounting Ethics -- Chapter 25. The Concept of an Accounting Regime -- Chapter 26. Accounting, Learning and Cultural Integration -- Chapter 27. A Termite Theory of Accounting Information Systems Research -- Part III: Beyond -- Chapter 28. Homogeneity or Heterogeneity of Research in Management Accounting? -- Chapter 29. Hyperreal Finance -- Chapter 30. Accounting as Simulacrum and Hyperreality: Perspectives on Income and Capital -- Chapter 31. A Literary Theory Perspective on Accounting: Towards Heteroglossic Accounting Reports -- Chapter 32. Business Planning as Pedagogy: Language and Control in a Changing Institutional Field -- Chapter 33. Changes in the Institutional Environment and the Institutions of Governance: Extending the Contributions of Transaction Cost Economics within the Management Control Literature -- Chapter 34. Ethics and Accountability: From the For-Itself to the For-the-Other -- Chapter 35. Accounting for God: Accounting and Accountability Practices in the Society of Jesus (Italy, XVI-XVII Centuries) -- Part IV: Prospects for Future Research.