''Accounting, Organizations and Society'' is a

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published by

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. Its

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are Marcia Annisette (

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), Martin Messner (

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), and Hun-Tong Tan (

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). The journal focuses on the relationships between

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and both human behaviour and organizations' structures, processes,

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, and political environments: that is, relationships among accounting, organizations, and society.

History

The journal was established in 1975 at

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by the late Anthony Hopwood, who subsequently took an active role as editor through promoting conferences and releasing editorial statements that helped to identify emerging areas of

accounting research Accounting research examines how accounting is used by individuals, organizations and government as well as the consequences that these practices have. Starting from the assumption that accounting both measures and makes visible certain economic ...

. Hopwood and colleagues defined the programmatic aims of the journal in its early years. Following Hopwood's retirement at the end of 2009, Christopher Chapman was appointed editor-in-chief, serving from the beginning of 2010 until 2015, when Keith Robson took on the role. Robson served as sole editor-in-chief until the appointment of Peecher and Annisette as co-editors-in-chief in September 2018.

Reception

The journal is reputed to publish high quality and innovative research work. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2017

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of 2.077. It is among the 50 journals used to compile the "''

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'' Research Rank". It is also included in the highest rank of academic journals by the Australian Business Deans Council. According to a 2006

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of studies of accounting journals, the journal was at the time one of the five accounting journals to be consistently ranked as top accounting journals. According to

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, the most cited articles are: * * * * *

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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/Social & Behavioral Sciences,

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, and the

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. According to the ''

'', the journal has a 2020

of 4.000, ranking it 19th out of 108 in the category of ''Finance''.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/accounting-organizations-and-society/ Accounting journals English-language journals Elsevier academic journals Academic journals established in 1975 8 times per year journals

History

Reception

Abstracting and indexing

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