Accountability research: ethnographic methods in organisation and accounting

Table of contents:
Part 1

Chapter 1. Introduction

Hugo Letiche, Ivo De Loo, Carolyn Cordery and Jean-Luc Moriceau

Chapter 2. Accountability and Ethnography: An Interview With John Roberts

Hugo Letiche and Ivo De Loo

Part 2

Chapter 3. Accountabilities in Eco- and Sex Tourism in Cambodia

Robert Earhart

Chapter 4. ‘Accountability-With’ and ‘Research-With’? Ethics, accountability, and relatedness in the research act; assisting the homeless in a religious NGO

David Yates and Rita Maria Difrancesco

Chapter 5. Framing the sacred and secular (in search of Justice and Righteousness): chaplaincy in an English University

Carolyn Cordery

Chapter 6. Accounting for political history: reflections on studying museums of recent history

Jerzy Kociatkiewicz and Elizabeth Carnegie

Chapter 7. Symmetrical Accountability and Reflexivity: primary school head-teachers

Hugo Letiche and Alexander Maas

Chapter 8. An Emerging Economy’s Engagement with the International Financial Reporting Standards and the IFRS Foundation

Özlem Asma-Arikan

Chapter 9. Sounding an alarm: Ill-fitted proportions and invidious accountability

Bill Lee

Chapter 10. From Accountability to Trust: Developing a Phenomenology of the Emergence of a Sense of Responsibility

Philippe Jacquinot and Arnaud Pellissier-Tanon

Chapter 11. Transforming and being transformed. Autoethnography of an extra-financial reporting coordinator’s quest of resonance at the headquarters of a French multinational company.

Lucas Boucaud, Rémi Jardat and Anne-Catherine Moquet

Chapter 12. Down with the masks: The paradoxes of [In-]habiting accountability

Albert Cath

Chapter 13. Aspirational intellectual ontological positions, de facto ontological positions and felt accountability: autoethnographic narratives from two early career researchers

Bill Lee, David Yates and Mira Lieberman

Chapter 14. Repentirs and the incomplete-able accountability

Jean-Luc Moriceau, Géraldine Guérillot et Isabela Paes

Chapter 15. Account-Ability and the In-Ability to Account: Conversations on Public-Private Tensions Experienced by Two Accountants-Academics

Remko Renes and Herman van Brenk

Part 3

Chapter 16. Ethnographies of Accountability: Some Reflections and the Way Ahead

Hugo Letiche, Ivo De Loo, Carolyn Cordery and Jean-Luc Moriceau
[https://www.routledge.com/Accountability-Research-Ethnographic-Methods-in-Organisation-and-Accounting/Letiche-DeLoo-Cordery-Moriceau/p/book/9781032442891]

This book discusses (auto- )ethnographies of accountability, undertaken (in close collaboration) by a multinational group of accounting and organization theory researchers over a period of three years. The key assumption underlying the book is that accountability is inherently an identity- creating process where the study of account- making has to be done participatively, with radical openness to the one(s) being researched, as well as to their context. That openness we call ‘ethnography’. The values or assumptions inherent to the practices of account and identity-making, in a specific context, are what (auto- )ethnographies seek to describe and identify. These values and assumptions warrant critical, ethical reflection, and this is what the researchers presented here have tried to provide.

The chapters in this book all are mini- studies of relatedness. The scale of examination is intimate; the reflections provided by the researchers are mainly methodological.

This book is of interest to accounting and organization theory students and scholars who believe that accountability can fruitfully be studied through (auto-) ethnography. The book extends currently existing views on how accountability can be handled and discharged between researchers and their researched, when local, intimate settings are studied.

(https://www.routledge.com/Accountability-Research-Ethnographic-Methods-in-Organisation-and-Accounting/Letiche-DeLoo-Cordery-Moriceau/p/book/9781032442891)