Hamlet without the prince: the ethnographic turn in information systems research
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It is important to avoid taking a narrow and literal view of information systems (IS) history, as this means that important historical lessons for addressing current developments in accounting are overlooked. Recent IS research in the accounting field has tended to be rather muddled, and has made clear that there are dangers associated with uncritically supporting technology. Current innovations in accounting IS must be seen as being part of a long lineage of events. New accounting software is raising a wide range of potential research questions, including the extent to which capitalist countries are having to adopt authoritarian social policies to limit labour costs.
Publication Name: Accounting, Auditing and Accountability
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0951-3574
Year: 1998
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"It may well be that Briloff is the nearest US equivalent to Sikka"
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A critical debate on North American and UK contributions and approaches to critical accounting scholarship by poem Sikka and Tony Willmott and Robert Scapens to Tony Tinker's initial paper, "The withering of C riticism" is presented.
Publication Name: Accounting, Auditing and Accountability
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0951-3574
Year: 2005
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