How and to what extent can accounting practices foster or prevent violence in organisations or a society?
Important notes:
a. You should ideally focus on a specific sub-topic related to the above broad topic areas and provide examples by drawing on published literature and by focussing on a specific case study of your choice.
b. Your essay should ideally be structured as follows:
1. Introduction.
2. Literature review.
3. Empirical case and findings.
4. Discussion.
(provides a critical and analytical comparison of your literature review and empirical findings)
5. Conclusion.
6. Relevant appendices.
7. References.
Mandatory readings:
1. Ahmed, M. S., & Uddin, S. (2022). Workplace Bullying and Intensification of Labour Controls in the Clothing Supply Chain: Post-Rana Plaza Disaster. Work, Employment and Society, 36(3), 539-556. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170211038205
2. Ahmed, S. (2024). Wage theft, secrecy, and derealization of “ideal workers” in the Bangladesh garment industry. Organization Studies.
3. Bilbija, K., & Payne, L. A. (Eds.). (2011). Accounting for Violence: Marketing Memory in Latin America. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11hpn1t
4. Katherine Leanne Christ, Roger Leonard Burritt, Muhammad Azizul Islam (2023). Modern slavery and the accounting profession. The British Accounting Review, 55, 101174.
Supportive readings:
You are strongly advised to read more academic articles from the following journals.
• Accounting, Organizations and Society
• Auditing, Accountability and Accounting Journal
• Critical Perspectives on Accounting
• Management Accounting Research
• Journal of Management Accounting Research
• The International Journal of Accounting
• Accounting Review
• The Journal of Accounting Research
• Accounting and Business Research
• Accounting Forum
• Financial Accountability and Management
• British Accounting Review
Management Science & Business Ethics
• Organisational Studies
• Management Science
• Journal of Business Ethics
• Academy of Management Review
• Administrative Science Quarterly
• Journal of Management
• Academy of Management Annals
• British Journal of Management
• Business Ethics Quarterly
• Journal of Management Studies
• Corporate Governance
• Human Relations
• Leadership Quarterly