Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal: Volume 7 Issue 1

Corporate Accountability and Rorty’s Utopian Liberalism

Tom Mouck

Addresses the lack of any coherent intellectual perspective forestablishing a theory of corporate accountability that is neitherextreme right‐wing nor anti‐liberal. Insights…

Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, and Turnover Intentions of United States Accountants: The Impact of Locus of Control and Gender

Sarah A. Reed, Stanley H. Kratchman, Robert H. Strawser

Investigates the impact of locus of control and gender on theexperiences and practices of accounting professionals. Also considersthe impact of role overload, inter‐role conflict…

Absorbing LMS: The Coping Mechanism of a Small Group

Richard Laughlin, Jane Broadbent, David Shearn, Heidrun Willig‐Atherton

While the original proposals of Local Management of Schools (LMS) had awide‐ranging agenda for management change, the actual outworking hastended to emphasize the management of…

Better Informed Judgements:Resource Management in the NHS

David M. Rea

The Resource Management Initiative (RMI) is a central ingredient inplans to instil market‐based relationships in health care and medicine.However, these plans have not benefited…