1st Edition

Accounting, Representation and Responsibility Deleuze and Guattarí Perspectives

By Niels Joseph Lennon Copyright 2021
96 Pages
by Routledge

96 Pages
by Routledge

96 Pages
by Routledge

In organizations, accounting produces organizational knowledge that affects decision-making and managerial action. Companies placing importance on shareholder value sometimes tend to elevate accounting to a higher truth criterion for justifying managerial actions. Yet, the nature of accounting renders it difficult to argue that accounting information necessarily produce a better basis for... Read more

Acknowledgements

PART I Theoretical plateaus

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. What can accounting learn from Deleuze?

Chapter 3. Is accounting representation work or visualization (re-presentation) work?

Chapter 4. What is accountability? Accountability, responsibility and responsibility accounting

PART II Deleuze accounting - Empirical plateaus

Chapter 5. Territorializing accountability

Chapter 6. Deterritorializing accountability

Epilogue

Index

Biography

Niels Joseph Lennon has a Ph.D. from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and is currently Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is interested in performance measurement, especially how accounting calculations construct certain visualizations of organizations and how such visualizations affect decision-making and managerial action.