The Critical Management Studies Conference will be a unique experiment in interdisciplinary management research. It will involve about twenty streams, including ones on postcolonialism, information systems, gender, globalization, marketing, strategy, organization studies, ethics, environment, management education, leisure and consumption, and accounting. Streams will normally last half a day, and the whole conference will be over three days.

The Critical Accounting stream will build on the substantial tradition of critical research in accounting. The intention is to continue the debate about the contribution and future of critical studies in accounting, whether they are critiques of current accounting institutions, practices and calculations or proposals for emancipatory forms of accounting. In particular we have a preference for papers that:

1. address issues of accounting praxis (such as the con- struction of social and employee reports) and the pos- sibilities for accounting interventions in public debates (about privatization, plant closures, etc.);
2. consider the nature of representation and accounting measurement in constructing organizational boundaries and assessments of performance;
3. critically evaluate changes in the accounting industry, including its regulatory structures;
4. examine the link between accounting, rationalization and bureaucratization of organizations and everyday life;
5. explore excluded and other voices in accounting (e.g., students, women, the colonized).

However, submissions that address any area of critical accounting research are encouraged. At least one special issue of Critical Perspectives on Accounting will be based on papers presented at the conference.

Three copies of a 750-word abstract of your proposed paper need to be submitted to one of the stream conveners by November 20, 1998 with a copy to the Conference Secretary, Mrs. Mary O’Brien, Manchester School of Management, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK. An international program committee will review submissions and authors will be informed of their decision by January 1, 1999. Full papers must be submitted by April 9, 1999.

For authors from North America and Australia:

Leslie Oakes
Anderson Schools of Management
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
Email: oakes@anderson.unm.edu

For the rest of the world:

David Cooper
Faculty of Business
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2R6
Email: dcooper@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca

Further details of the conference and registration details can be obtained from Mary.Obrien@umist.ac.uk, or from the address above.

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