Doxic sunglasses: A response to "Green accounting and Green Eyeshades: Twenty years later"

Crawford Spence, Nihel Chabrak, Richard Pucci

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Abstract

This article, in responding to Thornton's (this issue) depiction of how accounting might be extended to incorporate environmental issues, offers a critique of mainstream understandings of the accounting function. Specifically, we argue that Thornton's arguments are developed within doxic, or taken-for-granted, parameters regarding what accounting is and what it can be. Expanding the accounting domain whilst staying within these parameters leads to something more than the mere reproduction of the status quo; it leads to intensified commodification of the biosphere.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)469-473
Number of pages5
JournalCritical Perspectives on Accounting
Volume24
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2013

Keywords

  • Critical
  • Environmental
  • Public interest
  • Social
  • Sustainability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Accounting
  • Finance
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Information Systems and Management

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