Accountable to whom? Data transparency, depoliticisation and the myth of the market in English local government
(2016)
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Eckersley, P., & Ferry, L. (2016). Accountable to whom? Data transparency, depoliticisation and the myth of the market in English local government. In B. Cuadrado-Ballesteros, & I. M. García-Sánchez (Eds.), Local governments in the digital era : looking for accountability. Nova Science Publishers
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Formulating a Research Project. (2016)
Book Chapter
Denedo, M., MacLaren, A., & Hill, E. (2016). Formulating a Research Project. In A. Paterson, D. Leung, W. Jackson, R. MacIntosh, & K. O’Gorman (Eds.), Research Methods for Accounting and Finance. Goodfellow Publishers. https://doi.org/10.23912/978-1-910158-88-3-3243This chapter provided critical insights into how research ideas in Accounting and Finance could be formulated. We begin the chapter by considering where to generate research ideas and it was followed by how to critically contextualise the research id... Read More about Formulating a Research Project..
Liberalising accounting curricula using ‘angles of vision’ (2014)
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Exploring signs of hubris in CEO language (2014)
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This chapter focuses on the potential for DICTION to identify inaptly hubristic language of Chief Executive Officers. CEO hubris is examined as a syndrome possessing identifiable symptoms that have possible links to CEO language and DICTION measures.... Read More about Exploring signs of hubris in CEO language.
Public value as “performance”: politicians’ and managers’ perspectives on the importance of budgetary, accruals and non-financial measures (2014)
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Liguori, M., Sicilia, M., & Steccolini, I. (2014). Public value as “performance”: politicians’ and managers’ perspectives on the importance of budgetary, accruals and non-financial measures. In Public Value and Performance Management, Measurement and Reporting. Emerald
Power, Politics and Organizational Communication: An Ethnomethodological Perspective (2014)
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Whittle, A., Housley, W., Gilchrist, A., Lenney, P., & Mueller, F. (2014). Power, Politics and Organizational Communication: An Ethnomethodological Perspective. In F. Cooren, E. Vaara, A. Langley, & H. Tsoukas (Eds.), Language and communication at work : discourse, narrativity, and organizing (71-94). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198703082.001.0001Power and politics have long been recognized as central aspects of organizational life. This chapter seeks to explore how power and politics are used by organizational members as a key component of their category-bound reasoning within strategic inte... Read More about Power, Politics and Organizational Communication: An Ethnomethodological Perspective.
The application of social theory of practices in accounting literature. (2014)
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Zakaria, Z., & Ferry, L. (in press). The application of social theory of practices in accounting literature. . University Malaya Press
Image Restoration and the Management of Reputation (2014)
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Linsley, P., Slack, R., & Edkins, A. (2014). Image Restoration and the Management of Reputation. In R. Hart (Ed.), Communication and language analysis in the corporate world (89-107). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4999-6.ch006In September 2007, the directors of United Kingdom-based Northern Rock bank had to engage in crisis management following a run on the bank. The rhetoric of the bank’s pre- and post-crisis press releases is analysed in the chapter, and the findings co... Read More about Image Restoration and the Management of Reputation.
Politicians and Administrators: Two characters in search for a... role (2012)
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Liguori, M., Sicilia, M., & Steccolini, I. (2012). Politicians and Administrators: Two characters in search for a... role. In Reforming the Public Sector: How to Make the Difference? (157 - 172). Brookings Institution Press
Some theory for social accounting? A review essay and a tentative pedagogic categorisation of theorisations around social accounting. (2010)
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Gray, R., Owen, D., & Adams, C. (2010). Some theory for social accounting? A review essay and a tentative pedagogic categorisation of theorisations around social accounting. In M. Baldarelli (Ed.), Civil Economy, Democracy, Transparency and Social and Environmental Accounting Research Role. McGraw-Hill: Rome