1st Edition
Reality and Accounting Ontological Explorations in the Economic and Social Sciences
By Richard Mattessich
Copyright 2014
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book discusses and summarizes the revived interest in reality issues (ontology) within accounting, economics, and the information sciences, with a view to informing scholars from these different disciplines about each other’s endeavours in ontological research. Even more importantly, the book aims at familiarizing scholars from various disciplines with an evolutionary approach for... Read more
Preface 1. Introduction: Scope of the book and survey of subsequent chapters 2. Further reflections on ontology 3. Bhaskar’s transcendentalism and related philosophies 4. Social reality: its manifestation in accounting and management 6. FASB and social reality—an alternate realist view 7. Accounting and John Searle’s social ontology 8. Aspects of Mario Bunge’s ontology: A comparison (with the views of John Searle and others) 9. Propositions to an extension of the Onion Model of Reality 10. Heterodox economics and ontology 11. Ontology of systems science, and thoughts on quantum reality as well as chaos theory
Biography
Richard Mattessich is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
