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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to elaborate upon the notion of counter accounting, to assess the potentiality of online reports for counter accounting and hence for counter accounting's emancipatory potential as online reporting, to assess the extent to which this potential is being realised and to suggest ways forward from a critical perspective. Design/methodology/approach – There are several components to a critical interpretive analysis: critical evaluative analysis, informed to some extent by prior literature in diverse fields; web survey; questionnaire survey; case study. Findings – Web-based counter accounting may be understood as having emancipatory potential, some of which is being realised in practice. Not all the positive potential is, however, being realised as one might hope: things that might properly be done are not always being done. And there are threats to progress in the future. Originality/value – Clarification of a notion of counter accounting incorporating the activity of groups such as pressure groups and NGOs; rare study into practices and opinions in this context through a critical evaluative lens.
Author(s): Gallhofer S, Haslam J, Monk E, Roberts C
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal
Year: 2006
Volume: 19
Issue: 5
Pages: 681-718
Print publication date: 01/01/2006
ISSN (print): 1368-0668
ISSN (electronic): 1758-4205
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09513570610689668
DOI: 10.1108/09513570610689668
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