Introduction PART I. Critical accountability. 1. Key themes in accountability research. 2. The art of interpretation and Nature. 3. Markets, the business case, and interpretivism. 4. Postmodernism and interpretivism: Basic issues. 5. The public sphere, corporations, and society. 6. External relations: Re-engaging the company with the community in which it operates. PART II: Philosophical perspectives. 7. Basic concepts in accountability research: Key accountability theorists and issues. 8. Basic issues in accountability: Interpretivism, openness, and transparency. 9. Liberal accountability: Current environmental and social challenges and policy. 10. Critical and radical accounting and accountability: Basic philosophical issues in accountability research. PART III. The environment. 11. Deep ecology and interpretivism. 12. Deep Ecology, community and interpretation. 13. Perspectives on Deep Ecology: Basic issues. 14. Deep Ecology and interpretation: Social Ecology and how people relate to the world. 15. Perspectives on Nature: An environmental values perspective. 16. New directions for environmental democracy
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Biography
Glen Lehman is Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the School of Accounting and Information System, University of South Australia.
