The Visual and Material Dimensions of Legitimacy
Accounting and the Search forSocie-ties
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5819782 |
|---|---|
| Authors | François-Régis Puyou (0000-0002-8717-6070, University of St Andrews), Paolo Quattrone (0000-0003-1914-8243, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 5-6 |
| Pages | 721-746 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Organization Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0170-8406 • E-ISSN: 1741-3044 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0170840618765013 |
| OpenAlex | W2765968325 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 91 |
The aim of this article is to contribute to the literature on legitimacy by investigating its material and visual dimensions. By drawing on studies on rhetoric as a means of composing visions of social order and on an historical analysis of accounts in three paradigmatic eras (Roman times, Renaissance and Modernity), it shows how symmetry in accounts constituted an aesthetic code which tied members of a community together in 'socie-ties'. We investigate the rhetorical process of ratiocinatio and explore how the visual and material dimensions of accounts provided social actors with an opportunity to explore their positions and ties within a community. This process augmented social actors' understanding of their current relations by reducing them to a series of entries in an account, thus allowing them to reflect on what it meant to be a legitimate member of a society
Code (set theory · Vision · Visual rhetoric · Accounting and Organizational Management · Historical and Literary Studies · Visual Culture and Art Theory
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Multimodality
Languages of Art
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A Discursive Perspective on Legitimation Strategies in Multinational Corporations
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Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy
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Business Planning as Pedagogy
Legitimacy and Law in the Roman World
Insights to be gained from the study of ancient accounting history
Trust in Numbers
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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Visualizing technology and practical knowledge in the Encyclopédie ’s plates
Sensemaking, storytelling and the legitimization of elite business careers
Multiple legitimacy narratives and planned organizational change
Studies in the History of Accounting
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Registers, Account-Books, and Written Documents in the De Frumento
Rhetoric and the Invention of Double Entry Bookkeeping
Introduction
Struggles Over Legitimacy in Global Organizational Restructuring
L'ancienne rhétorique [Aide-mémoire]
Economic Credit in Renaissance Florence
A History of Financial Accounting
Images in Advertising
Peripheral Vision
Sociality with Objects
Accounting for Rationality
Inhabited Institutions
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |