Sonja Gallhofer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4174277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonja Gallhofer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonja |
| FAMILY NAME | Gallhofer |
| SIGNATURE | GALLHOFER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dundee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Emancipation
This chapter promotes and illustrates accounting history reflecting a critical theoretical approach. The particular approach, reflecting our work, is developed through engagement with postmodern, post-structuralist and post-Marxist orientation in theorising in the social sciences and humanities. The illustrative focuses are substantively writings on accounting by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, and accounting's actual mobilisation by soci…
Social Accounting, Historical Perspective
Within the discourse and practice of social responsibility and accounting, one can find alternative definitions or delineations of social accounting.
Exploring social, political and economic dimensions of accounting in the global context
We elaborate an immanent critique of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), critically exploring its claim to serve the public interest by reference to its character and position, its official principles and its work vis-à-vis campaigns to disaggregate accounting focused on extractive industries and operating segments. We raise issues about the institution and its rhetoric and indicate that it does not straightforwardly apply its pr…
Accounting and liberation theology
Critical social analysis seeks, amongst other things, to delineate and foster more emancipatory types of discipline and practice. In so doing, it appropriately turns to and can come to be informed and influenced by a broad range of subject areas and empirical focuses, including some that substantially parallel its own emancipatory project. The concern of this article is to explore the case of liberation theology as a social discipline and practic…
Accounting and Emancipation
Accounting is a social practice: it should be evaluated in terms of its contribution to a notion of social well-being. In order to do this, this book elaborates a critique of contemporary accounting. The authors encourage those with a close interest in accounting to make the search for a more emancipatory and enabling accounting a core area of thei
Profit Related Pay and the U.K. Small Firm Labour Market
Exploring social, political and economic dimensions of accounting in the global context
We elaborate an immanent critique of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), critically exploring its claim to serve the public interest by reference to its character and position, its official principles and its work vis-à-vis campaigns to disaggregate accounting focused on extractive industries and operating segments. We raise issues about the institution and its rhetoric and indicate that it does not straightforwardly apply its pr…
Profit Related Pay and the U.K. Small Firm Labour Market
Accounting and Emancipation
Accounting is a social practice: it should be evaluated in terms of its contribution to a notion of social well-being. In order to do this, this book elaborates a critique of contemporary accounting. The authors encourage those with a close interest in accounting to make the search for a more emancipatory and enabling accounting a core area of thei
Accounting and liberation theology
Critical social analysis seeks, amongst other things, to delineate and foster more emancipatory types of discipline and practice. In so doing, it appropriately turns to and can come to be informed and influenced by a broad range of subject areas and empirical focuses, including some that substantially parallel its own emancipatory project. The concern of this article is to explore the case of liberation theology as a social discipline and practic…
Exploring social, political and economic dimensions of accounting in the global context
We elaborate an immanent critique of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), critically exploring its claim to serve the public interest by reference to its character and position, its official principles and its work vis-à-vis campaigns to disaggregate accounting focused on extractive industries and operating segments. We raise issues about the institution and its rhetoric and indicate that it does not straightforwardly apply its pr…
Social Accounting, Historical Perspective
Within the discourse and practice of social responsibility and accounting, one can find alternative definitions or delineations of social accounting.
Emancipation
This chapter promotes and illustrates accounting history reflecting a critical theoretical approach. The particular approach, reflecting our work, is developed through engagement with postmodern, post-structuralist and post-Marxist orientation in theorising in the social sciences and humanities. The illustrative focuses are substantively writings on accounting by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, and accounting's actual mobilisation by soci…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Accounting (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Accounting and Organizational Management (2 works) · Emancipation (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)