This paper describes and illustrates a symbolic interactionist approach to critical ethnographic research in organizations. In so doing, it addresses the call by Chua (1988), for first, the development and explication of a less eclectic approach to interpretive sociology by management accounting...

It is well known that no equivalent of the German Betriebswirtschaftslehre (Business Economics) developed in Britain. British economists were relatively uninterested in the internal workings of organisations, and thus did not provide the same theoretical underpinnings to the early development of...

Economics was slow to emerge as a distinct academic and professional discipline in the United Kingdom. In the years around 1900, some British universities began to offer degrees in commerce, including accounting. These degrees were influenced by the contemporary emergence of business economics...