As I have issued a call for proposals to the lists, I wanted to announce
the publication of the first title in Harwood's Management, Organization
and Society series (eds. Barbara Czarniawska and Martha Feldman). The
blurb and contents follow and at the end of the post are the other books
now contracted. There are a number of other good projects in the pipeline.
Gerard Greenway
Harwood Academic Publishers
gerard.greenway@gbhap.com
Tel: 0044 (0)118 952 0314
Management, Organization and Society -- Volume 1
CONTRASTING INVOLVEMENTS
A Study of Management Accounting Practices in Britain and Germany
Thomas Ahrens, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Drawing on interviews and observations in matched pairs of firms,
Contrasting Involvements explores the differences between management
accounting practices in Britain and Germany. The author deals with
contrasting Anglo-German approaches, particularly regarding how
organizational members verbally mobilize accounting, how management
accountants relate their craft to processes of strategy-making, and how
accounting becomes implicated in organizational processes of
accountability. These three themes point towards specific appreciations
of the reality of accounting and management by organizational members in
the two countries.
Ahrens gives readers a sense of the immediacy with which accounting
practitioners in both countries appreciate their craft, while emphasizing
that they have different kinds of knowledge. Detailed examples illustrate
how different enactments of organizational structures can be related to
management accountants' contrasting involvements in organizational action.
Contents: There Is a Difference: Exploring the Specificity of Management
Accounting Practices in Britain and Germany <> Relating Management
Accounting to the Cultural Context of Organising <> A Matching Research
Design <> Talking Accounting: Enacting Orders Through Combinations of
Expertise <> Practising in the Name of Strategy <> Styles of
Accountability <> The Value of Comparative Organization Studies: From
Inventories of Practices to Sensitising Devices
1999 <> 160pp <> Cloth <> ISBN 90-5702-351-2 <> US$38 / #24 / EUR32
FORTHCOMING
Volume 2
ORGANIZATIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY
Michael Rosen
1999/2000
Volume 3
THE POETIC LOGIC OF ADMINISTRATION
Styles and Changes of Style in the Art of Organising*
Kaj Skoldberg
2000
Volume 4
COURT AND SPARK
Deal-Making on the Borders of Basic and Applied Research*
William Kaghan
2000
Volume 5
BREAKING THROUGH THE GRASS CEILING
Women, Power and Leadership in Rural Australia*
Margaret Alston
2000
Volume 6
FOLK THEORIES OF ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT
An Anthropology of the Best-Selling Business Books
Paul Bate
* Working titles
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