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Accounting for privatisation in Africa? Reflections from a critical interdisciplinary perspective


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Subtitle: Reflections from a critical interdisciplinary perspective

Author list: Jairos Josiah,
Bruce Burton,
Sonja Gallhofer,
Jim Haslam

Publication year: 2009

Journal: Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volume number: 21

Issue number: 05

Start page: 374

End page: 389

Number of pages: 16



The interrelation of privatisation and accounting constitutes a wide-ranging focus for research that is attractive from a critical theoretical and interdisciplinary perspective. A number of studies may be considered part of this focus in holding themselves out as types of evaluation of – or as an accounting, or accountability, for – privatisation. For us, the evaluation of privatisation programmes is properly a concern of critical accounting research and of those interested in the development of more holistic forms of accounting and auditing for appraisal, such as is envisaged in forms of social accounting and social auditing. Indeed the assessment of privatisation has been deemed within the ambit of the social audit movement. Privatisation in Africa is controversial. In today's context it is often integral to the particular form of the globalisation process and carries related ambiguities.


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