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Strategies in the development of accounting history as an academic discipline

Alan J. Richardson

York University, Canada, arichardson{at}schulich.yorku.ca

Accounting history has emerged as an academic discipline over the last 40 years within English speaking countries. There is now a critical mass of researchers, dedicated journals and conferences, and a significant body of literature that is increasing in scope and depth. This article examines the strategies that, ex post , can be seen as important in developing accounting history as a discipline. Three strategies are identified: (1) making accounting history relevant (to education, standard-setting, and organizational memory/identity), (2) making accounting history controversial (by identifying positive and negative exemplars, providing historical critiques of mainstream research, and encouraging methodological/ theoretical pluralism within accounting history), and (3) institutionalizing accounting history (by developing academic associations, journals and conferences, and embedding accounting history within a network of supporting organizations including universities, professional associations, libraries, research centers and publishers). The article concludes by identifying the weak points in the disciplinary project.

Key Words: Disciplinarity • disciplinary evolution • institutionalization

Accounting History, Vol. 13, No. 3, 247-280 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1032373208091528
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