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Roaring Nineties: Accounting History Comes Of Age, Richard K. Fleischman, Vaughan S. Radcliffe
Roaring Nineties: Accounting History Comes Of Age, Richard K. Fleischman, Vaughan S. Radcliffe
Accounting Historians Journal
The paper outlines developments in the accounting history literature during the 1990s. The introduction chronicles the immense broadening of publication opportunities in accounting history that characterized the decade. To a certain extent, this enhancement of outlets resulted from a richer dialogue among accounting historians who became increasingly willing to debate paradigmatic and methodological issues. In this context, the paper identifies and discusses traditional and critical forms of accounting history and reviews work within the paradigms of economic-rationalist, Foucauldian, and Marxist/labor-process studies. The major elements of debate between old and new perspectives on accounting history are discussed and linked to later …