''Critical Perspectives on Accounting'' is a

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published by

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. The aim of the journal is to study how accounting works within society and to promote forms of accounting that are in the

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. It was established in 1990 with David J. Cooper (

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), and A.M. Tinker (

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) as founding

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. They were succeeded in 2008 by Marcia Annisette, Christine Cooper, and Dean Neu. The current editors-in-chief are Jane Andrew (

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), Christine Cooper (

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), and Yves Gendron (

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Accountants Index,

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 5.538.

#ULSB16 controversy

In January 2021, sixteen academics were targeted for redundancy by the

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School of Business because they had published articles in ''Critical Perspectives on Accounting''. Publishing in this journal was treated as evidence of unsuitable scholarship, hence a basis for redundancy. The University of Leicester aimed to shed critical management scholarship as part of a strategic reorientation of the School towards a more mainstream outlook. The sixteen faculty members were being targeted because of their engagement in critical scholarship areas deemed not sufficiently congenial with the new vision of the School. The Head of the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (a sociologist) stated that management research should not be informed by a sociological perspective.

Notable articles

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References

External links

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