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Imagined Worlds of Accounting

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Author	Sunder, Shyam
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Science, engineering, and all other learned disciplines, as well as our socio-political-economic organizations are artifacts—results of our imagination and ingenuity. Modern corporation—a marvel of organizational engineering—would not be possible without imagination. To run organizations, in the face of the centrifugal forces of divergent self-interest and inherently dispersed information, we need accounting. Accounting, too, is an artifact that arose from human imagination, as a precursor of, or contemporaneously with, mathematics, writing and the civilization itself. We explore the case for imagination in our discipline with respect to its environment, scholarship and instruction. Specifically, accounting scholarship includes examination not only of the way things were and are, but also of how they can be. Why should we imagine alternate scenarios, instead of simply waiting for changes to occur, or being forced upon us? We must do so, because imagination is necessary to bring about innovation in practice and in institutions, so our children might live in a better world.
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ISSN	21946051
e-ISSN	21522820
DOI	10.2202/2152-2820.1014
Journal	Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publisher Date	2011-01-31
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium Cultural Studies History and Philosophy of Science Political Economics Journal: Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium, Issue- 3
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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