Pioneers of Critical Accounting

Chapter 1) Introduction; Jim Haslam and PremSikka.- Chapter 2) Tony Lowe and the Interdisciplinary and CriticalPerspectives on Accounting Project: Reflections on the Contributions of aUnique Scholar; Richard Laughlin.-Chapter 3) The Man Who Always Asked Why:  The Reflexive Accounting of Tony Lowe; Kerry Jacobs.- Chapter 4) Revisitingcontrol system concepts:  Contingency,cybernetics and the science of the unknowable; Winnie O'Grady and Alan Lowe.- Chapter5) Organisational Effectiveness and Social and Environmental Accounting:Through the past darkly; Rob Gray, AideenO'Dochartaigh and Clemence Rannou.- Chapter 6) Thinking About CriticalMethodology; Robin Roslender.-Chapter 7) The "sustainable development" of a critical accounting project; Jesse Dillard.- Chapter 8) A briefhistorical appreciation of accounting theory? But who cares?; Michael Gaffikin.- Chapter 9) Informingsfor Control and Emancipatory Interests in Accounting: New Reflections on theIntellectual Emancipation of Accounting and the Possibilities of EmancipatoryAccountings; Jim Haslam.- Chapter 10) Think Different: Accounting as a Systems Theorist: Gender,Race and Class; Cheryl R. Lehman.-Chapter 11) A Critical Look at the IASB; Geoff Whittington; A CriticalAnalysis of the Balanced Scorecard: Towards a More Dialogic Approach; David Cooper and Mahmoud Ezzamel;Chapter 12) Re-imagining The Corporation: The Relevance of Legal, Economic andPolitical Imaginaries; Hugh Willmott andJeroen Veldman; Chapter 13) Big Four Accounting Firms: Addicted to TaxAvoidance; Prem Sikka.

Jim Haslam is Professor of Accounting, Governance and Societyat the University of Sheffield, UK. His career in academia now spans overthirty years. He has published widely in several leading journals and is jointauthor (with Sonja Gallhofer) of Accountingand Emancipation: Some Critical Interventions.

Prem Sikka isProfessor of Accounting at the University of Essex, UK. He has advised andgiven evidence to parliamentary committees. He holds the Working for Justice Award from Tax JusticeNetwork, Accounting Exemplar Award from the American AccountingAssociation and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Accounting andFinance Association and PQ Magazine.