Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Understanding African Management and Economics through History -- 2 Effects of Financial Innovations on Volume Traded on the Nairobi Securities Exchange -- 3 Financial Inclusion and Financial System Stability in Nigeria -- 4 Financial Management: A...

This research raises a complex of questions about the relationship between the West and its former colonies. Many ex-colonised countries are now emerging as developing or developed economies, yet they are still using the Western accounting systems. We know from the African history that these...

Sustainability – in the sense of a system of deep‐rooted social justice and a fair and responsible allocation and use of ecological resources – requires a political philosophy adequate to its unique task in effecting change. Traditional Cartesian epistemes, that rely on formalistic policy...

Capitalism, religion and science (including calculative sciences such as accounting) have a long and turbulent relationship that, today, is manifest in the “War on Terror”. As social ideologies, religion and science have played a sometimes decisive influence in the history of capitalism....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the core meaning of critical research. Design/methodology/approach – It begins by noting the frequent divergence between “Real” history (which always marches to its own beat) and academic reflection that often fails to follow the beat of...

Purpose – A reply to responses by Prem Sikka and Tony Willmott (“The withering of tolerance and communication in interdisciplinary accounting studies”) and Robert Scapens (“Reactions on reading ‘ The withering of criticism ’”) to Tony Tinker's initial paper, “ The withering of...