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Balancing money and mission in a local church budget

Irvine, Helen - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 18 (2005) 2, pp. 211-237

/implications – Religion and religious organizations occupy a greater importance in society than academic accounting research would indicate …

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Does one size fit all? The sacred and secular divide revisited with insights from Niebuhr's typology of social action

Hardy, Les; Ballis, Harry - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 18 (2005) 2, pp. 238-254

Purpose – This paper offers a critique of the sacred and secular dichotomy, a theoretical framework recently introduced into the accounting and accountability literature primarily by Laughlin and Booth. The divide has been used to interpret the ambiguous roles of accountants and accounting...

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NGOs, civil society and accountability: making the people accountable to capital

Gray, Rob; Bebbington, Jan; Collison, David - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 19 (2006) 3, pp. 319-348

its location in civil society in order to provide a basis for future research work. The paper aims to explore and develop … research finds that the essence of accountability lies in the relationships between the organisation and the society and … relationship and the consequential colonisation and oppression of civil society. Research limitations/implications – The principal …

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Theorising accountability for NGO advocacy

Unerman, Jeffrey; O'Dwyer, Brendan - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 19 (2006) 3, pp. 349-376

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a staged theoretical argument regarding whether non‐governmental organisations (NGOs) can be considered responsible and accountable for the direct and indirect consequences, on a wide range of stakeholders, flowing from their advocacy...

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What gets measured gets … on indicating, mobilizing and acting

Catasús, Bino; Ersson, Sofi; Gröjer, Jan‐Erik; Yang … - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 20 (2007) 4, pp. 505-521

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the relationship underlying the often used adage “what gets measured gets managed”. Design/methodology/approach – The paper starts by reviewing the critique of the adage and then testing it by surveying 109 managers from...

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Religious “spirit” and peoples' perceptions of accountability in Hindu and Buddhist religious organizations

Jayasinghe, Kelum; Soobaroyen, Teerooven - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 22 (2009) 7, pp. 997-1028

combination with broader structural elements of the society. Design/methodology/approach – The interpretive tradition of research … the temple's righteous and prudent image to the religious society. Research limitations/implications – The paper raises …

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Accounting/art and the emancipatory project: some reflections

Gallhofer, Sonja; Haslam, Jim - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 9 (1996) 5, pp. 23-44

If we are concerned to develop an emancipatory accounting, and if we are sensitive towards the tendencies to ethnocentrism, chronocentrism and dogmatism, we can potentially gain insights from the social and critical theoretical analysis of any phenomena, whatever be their location in time and...

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Research in the School of Information Management, London Metropolitan University

McGuinness, Rosemary - In: Aslib Proceedings 59 (2007) 2, pp. 121-124

Management to society from the academic team at London Metropolitan University through an introduction to the papers in this … delivering an equitable society. Research limitations/implications – This paper is limited to a descriptive editorial. Practical … implications – Information and Knowledge providers and services are primarily for individuals and organisations in society …

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Service quality and customers’ behavioural intentions : Class and mass banking and implications for the consumer and society

Choudhury, Koushiki - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 27 (2015) 5, pp. 735-757

implications for the service provider, consumer, society and consumer policy. Design/methodology/approach – A contextually modified … agencies as catalysts of a responsible and active civic society. Originality/value – This study explores the relationship … constructs at their dimensional level. It highlights major implications for the service provider, society, consumer and public …

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Integrating the social maslaha into Islamic finance

Cebeci, Ismail - In: Accounting Research Journal 25 (2012) 3, pp. 166-184

system to society in terms of social responsibility (SR) required by the concept of social maslahah. Design …

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