Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Accounting discourse'

Following Roberts (1990) and Dent (1990). this study investigates the importance of complexifying the relationship between strategy and accounting. The genealogical approach of Hoskin et al (1997) provides inspiration as to the ways in which strategic discourse (itself promoted as a subject of study by Knights and Morgan (1990,1991,1995)) is historically contingent upon practices of accounting. I take up this task of inaugurating the study of accounting practice and strategy discourse, from strategy to accounting, to develop a new perspective of how their interaction takes place. This gives birth to a re-reading of the strategy (and accounting) literatures, from the direction of a constitutive notion of accounting practices. In particular, the processual and critical schools of strategy are found to promote conventional notions of accounting as mirror, as secondary and passive practice, which circulate beneath the usual level of visibility. Building on this emergent approach, a post- Foucauldian theory of practices is outlined from a methodological viewpoint. This approach does not begin from such general categories as 'the individual', 'the social' or 'the economic', and thereby does not follow conventional understandings of 'doing ethnography'. The inquiry is empirically situated within the context of a longitudinal investigation (1997-2000) into the U. K. based part of a global telecommunications company, Teleco. I discover complex interactions between accounting practices and the workings of strategy, both as presence and absence. There is a partial presence of strategy even within the most 'strategic' parts of Teleco, in conjunction with a growing absence within those parts most distant from 'the strategy'. Despite this, or perhaps because of this, the spread of accounting and accounting based-practices rolls on, albeit in a non-uniform way. This brings forth the possibility of a strategic accounting, one whose practices are perhaps most visibly internalised and effected on my very self, thus adding weight to the rejection within this thesis of the metaphysical categories of either 'strategy' or 'accounting.

Research to date has focused on explaining disclosure and accountability practices mainly in liberal market economies. Accountability and disclosure studies have been embedded in WestemlEuro-centric economic and social theories. Although there have been a growing number of theoretical accountability studies, few empirical studies have been conducted to explore the nature of accountability in the public sector and the private sector. Disclosure and accountability practices in non-competitive markets have been given little attention in the literature. The focus of this thesis is to understand information disclosure practices and accountability construction processes in the predominant socialist and Arabic context of Libya. This study contributes to knowledge by explaining how the practices of disclosure and accountability in such context occur. Explaining disclosure and accountability practices in relation to the state and the public contributes to the current debate around these practices. This study reported on data collected from two case studies conducted in Libya: the Secretary of Industry (SI) and the National Trailers Company (NTC). The Secretary of Industry's responsibilities included supervising thirty-one companies including the National Trailers Company. The National Trailers Company was a joint venture company where the State, represented by the Secretary of Industry, owned 75 per cent of the capital and an Italian company, Calabrese, owned 25 per cent of the capital. The aim of the study was to understand how information was disclosed and accountability was constructed and to explain the relationships between disclosure and accountability in the SI-NTC context. The study used Sinclair's (1995) forms of accountability as a point of reference to explore whether these forms were identified and understood similarly in the Libyan context. The study's observations showed that disclosure and accountability practices within the SI-NTC context were different from those identified in the literature. Information was disclosed upon request and followed mainly accountability routes. The role of managerial and financial accountability in this process was emphasised. The study proposed an explanation for the SI-NTC disclosure and accountability practices that took into consideration the role of not only economic, but also social and cultural aspects in these practices. This explanation encompassed values and beliefs that were related not only to secular, but also to sacred activities. The observations showed that Islamic construction of identity and accountability of a person (all persons) to Allah was embedded in the accountability process. The study's contribution was two-fold. The first was related to the process and the practice of disseminating the company's information - information enclosure - and the second was related to the accountability construction process - accountability webs. Information enclosure theory was proposed to explain the company's disclosure (enclosure) practices. The proposed theory was different from the conventional disclosure theories in that it reflected the role of not only economic but also social relationships in the information provided. Information was provided to those who constituted "the organisational web" of accountability where the influence of social relationships and personal connections - "the social web" - was present.

Intimate relations are one of the most analysed aspects of human experience, and sociological interest in this topic has been sustained throughout the history of the discipline. This thesis begins with an analysis of existing sociological claims about intimate relations. It is suggested that these theoretical claims have largely coalesced around the issues of (a) the 'essential basis' of intimacy, and / or (b) the social and historical contexts in which such relationships are enacted. In contradistinction to academic psychology, sociological accounts have typically afforded intimacy troubles a supra-personal quality i.e. as arising from either the contradictory or dualistic nature of intimacy itself, or as a consequence of wider structural changes in specific social and historical locations. However, in making these theoretical claims, sociologists have typically muted or transformed vernacular voices. This study has attempted to identify and analyse a series of vernacular accounts of such intimacy troubles by means of a hybrid of ‘normal science' methodology (Lynch; 1993), and discourse analysis (Potter and Wetherell, 1987; Edwards and Potter, 1992). The data for this analysis comprises instances of Internet communications made over a three-year period within one 'on-line community' (www.divorce-online.co.uk). Three overarching, and highly integrated themes pervaded the exchanges on this Internet site: (a) 'reputation work', (b) the construction of ‘heroic' identities, and (c) a concern with 'moral proceduralism'. It is suggested that these findings carry differentiating and therapeutic implications for existing sociologies of intimacy troubles. The thesis concludes by advocating a turn away from the familiar sociological tendency for abstract theorising in favour of the close analysis of lay accounting for these matters.

UK Higher Education is considered to be at the forefront of equality and diversity policy and practice, yet its staff profile is characterised by persistent gender (among other types of) imbalance. This thesis investigates this paradox, focusing on the under-researched professional and support services staff, and particularly female-dominated administrative and secretarial occupations. In contrast to the few previous studies on the topic, this PhD project takes a discursive perspective to explore this paradox. In other words, it examines how university professional and support staff discursively account for the persistent gender imbalance in their sector, with a particular focus on how they talk themselves out of acting to change the status quo, i.e. on discursive barriers to change. A UK case-study university, whose staff gender-imbalanced profile is representative of the national picture, was selected as the epistemological site. Focus groups were conducted with female and male staff in administrative and secretarial occupations; interviews were carried out with managers who had progressed internally from administrative and secretarial roles, and with former employees of the case-study university. Data were analysed and interpreted from a critical realist, feminist perspective. Discourse analysis was conducted, with a specific focus on the functions, effects and implications of participants’ situated use of gendered discourses and discursive constructions, and co-production of patterned accounts. This thesis takes a much-needed step beyond deconstruction and critique of discursive barriers, towards promoting discursive reconstruction and change. It highlights participants’ potentially emancipatory uses of counter-discourses, and provides recommendations for discursive change.

Current theory largely uses medical, psychiatric or cognitive models to describe the effects of chronic illness. This study adopts a social constructionist perspective, a fundamental tenet of which is that meanings are made in interaction. Thus, chronic illness, identity and coping are not static, measurable phenomena. Rather, they are treated as something that people do in talk (Antaki & Widdicombe, 1998). Discourse analysis, with its focus on the rhetorical function of language, provides the means with which to examine this. There is very little published research using this perspective or this methodology to research either ME/CFS or stroke. Participants were recruited via self-help groups. 49 people with ME and 10 stroke sufferers were interviewed via email. Four face-to-face focus groups were also held, comprising a further 7 ME sufferers, and 12 people who had a stroke (with 5 of their carers). Analysis focused on how sufferers constructed their condition, the effects it had on identity, and the ways in which they coped. Both conditions were constructed as serious, and poorly understood. However, only ME sufferers constructed their illness as specifically not psychological or psychiatric. People in both groups oriented to the problematic nature of sufferers’ identity that arose from their accountability for becoming ill, and for their inactivity. ME and stroke sufferers oriented to issues of accountability for the ways in which they coped. People with ME emphasised their previously high levels of activity, and their mental health, and thus oriented to specific aspects of their construction of this condition. There was, therefore, some commonality of experience among the two groups, in that their illness was associated with stigma. In addition, constructions of identity and coping drew on particular features of participants’ own illness constructions. The study ends with a discussion of practical implications for health professionals, sufferers, carers and researchers.

In looking at the continued development of the concept of sustainability intra and inter the accounting community, this work has created a number of empirical data sets: interviews with Small and Medium-sized Practices (SMPs); interviews with Big Four firms/ Professional Accounting Bodies/ others – relevant to sustainability and accounting. This empirical data has in particular added the views of a marginalised group within the accounting community – SMPs. Also the web-site empirical data sets from the Big Four have added some triangulated data. The key findings include: SMPs understanding of sustainability is still quite basic, grappling with the definitions and how the sustainability concept can be aligned to accounting services; dominant groups (Professional Accounting Bodies and Big Four firms) continue to develop the concepts and services, with a view those developed primarily for and with multi national firms can be trickled down to SME/Ps; SMPs have been viewed as trusted business advisers, combined with the development of the business case to sustainable development and the reduction in traditional accounting services, there are strong motivations for the development of sustainability services and advice by SMPs; the concept of sustainability is multi-layered within the accounting community with SMPs still at an introductory stage whilst the Big Four and Professional Accounting Bodies developing the use of accounting language to create, explain and analyse sustainable development. The theoretical development in using a critical discourse analysis framework is in particular the stage between discourse and Grand Discourse. Initially in poly-vocal discourse the Grand Discourse analysis can be said to theoretically identify the level of development of the idea and leadership and power dynamics within the specific sub-groups in the progression of the concept. There are a number of policy suggestions that this work develops including: improved engagement intra the accounting community; clear guidance developed for marginalised accounting groups; increased regulatory support in addition to reporting; continued guidance on sustainability assurance.

In the 29 years following \"Our Common Future\" by the United Nations, there is considerable debate among governments, civil society, interest groups and business organisations about what constitutes sustainable development, which constitutes evidence for a contested discourse concerning sustainability. The purpose of this study is to understand this debate in the developing economic context of Brazil, and in particular, to understand and critique the social and environmental accounting [SEA] discursive constructions relating to the State-owned, Petrobras as well as to understand the Brazilian literature on SEA. The discourse theory [DT]-based analysis employs rhetorical redescription to analyse twenty-two reports from Petrobras from 2004-2013. I investigate the political notions by employing the methodological framework of the Logics of Critical Explanation [LCE]. LCE engenders five methodological steps: problematisation, retroduction, logics (social, political and fantasmatic), articulation and critique. The empirical discussion suggests that the hegemony of economic development operates to obfuscate, rhetorically, the development of sustainability, so as to maintain the core business of Petrobras conceived as capital accumulation. Equally, these articulations also illustrate how the constructions of SEA operate to serve the company\'s purpose with few (none) profound changes in integration of sustainability. The Brazilian literature on SEA sustains the status quo of neo-liberal market policies that operate to protect the dominant business case approach to maintain an agenda of wealth-creation in relation to social and environmental needs. The articulations of the case manifested in policies regarding, for example, corruption, which involved over-payments for contracts and unsustainable practices relating to the use of fossil fuels and demonstrated that there was antagonism between action and disclosure. The corruption scandal that emerged after SEA disclosures highlighted the rhetorical nature of disclosure when financial resources were subtracted from the company for political parties and engineering contractors hid facts through incomplete disclosures. The articulations of SEA misrepresent a broader context of the meanings associated with sustainability, which restricted the constructions of SEA to principally serve and represent the intention of the most powerful groups. The significance of SEA, then is narrowed to represent particular interests. The study argues for more critical studies as limited Brazilian literature concerning SEA kept a \'safe distance\' from substantively critiquing the constructions of SEA and its articulations in the Brazilian context. The literature review and the Petrobras\' case illustrate a variety of naming, instituting and articulatory practices that endeavour to maintain the current hegemony of development in an emerging economy, which allows Petrobras to continue to exercise significant profit at the expense of the social and environmental. The constructed idea of development in Petrobras\' discourses emphasises a rhetoric of wider development, but, in reality, these discourses were the antithesis of political, social and ethical developmental issues. These constructions aim to hide struggles between social inequalities and exploitation of natural resources and constitute excuses about a fanciful notion of rhetorical and hegemonic neo-liberal development. In summary, this thesis contributes to the prior literature in five ways: (i) the addition of DT to the analysis of SEA enhances the discussion of political elements such as hegemony, antagonism, logic of equivalence/difference, ideology and articulation; (ii) the analysis of an emerging economy such as Brazil incorporates a new perspective of the discussion of the discourses of SEA and development; (iii) this thesis includes a focus on rhetoric to discuss the maintenance of the status quo; (iv) the holistic structure of the LCE approach enlarges the understanding of the social, political and fantasmatic logics of SEA studies and; (v) this thesis combines an analysis of the literature and the case of Petrobras to characterise and critique the state of the Brazilian academy and its impacts and reflections on the significance of SEA. This thesis, therefore, argues for more critical studies in the Brazilian academy due to the persistence of idea of SEA and development that takes-for-granted deep exclusions and contradictions and provide little space for critiques.
Em 29 anos da publicação \"Nosso Futuro Comum\" apresentado pelas Nações Unidas, ainda há um considerável debate entre governos, sociedade civil, grupos interessados e organizações empresariais sobre o que constitui o desenvolvimento sustentável e, portanto, há evidência da contestabilidade do discurso sobre sustentabilidade. A proposta desse estudo é entender esse debate em um contexto de desenvolvimento econômico no Brasil e, em particular, entender e criticar as construções discursivas de contabilidade social e ambiental [CSA] relacionadas à estatal Petrobras, assim como discutir a literatura brasileira de CSA. A análise baseada na Discourse Theory [DT] usa redescrição retórica para analisar vinte e dois relatórios da Petrobras entre 2004 e 2013. Eu investigo as noções políticas através do emprego da metodologia chamada Logics of Critical Explanation [LCE]. A LCE tem cinco passos metodológico: problematização, explicação retrodutiva, lógicas (sociais, políticas e fantasmáticas), articulação e crítica. Os resultados sugerem que a hegemonia do desenvolvimento econômico opera para obscurecer retoricamente o desenvolvimento da sustentabilidade que mantém o core business da Petrobras igualmente concebido como acumulação de capital. Igualmente, essas articulações também ilustram como as construções de CSA operam para servir o propósito da empresa com pouca (ou nenhuma) profunda mudança na integração com a sustentabilidade. A literatura brasileira de CSA sustenta o status quo de políticas de mercado neoliberais que operam para proteger a dominante abordagem do business case para manter a agenda de geração de riqueza num cenário de necessidade sociais e ambientais. As articulações do estudo de caso manifestaram essas políticas, por exemplo, em relação à corrupção, no qual envolveu superfaturamento de contratos e práticas insustentáveis relacionadas ao uso de combustíveis fósseis os quais demonstraram que há antagonismo entre ação e disclosure. O escândalo de corrupção que surgiu após as divulgações de CSA marcou a natureza retórica do disclosure em que recursos financeiros subtraídos da empresa para partidos políticos e empreiteiras esconderam fatos através de disclosures incompletos. As articulações da CSA deturpam um contexto amplo dos significados associados com a sustentabilidade, que restringiram as construções da CSA para principalmente servir e representar a intenção dos grupos mais poderosos. A significância da CSA é, portanto, limitada para representar interesses particulares. O estudo argumenta por mais estudos críticos já que a limitada literatura brasileira sobre CSA mantém uma \'distância segura\' de substantivas críticas das construções de CSA e suas articulações no contexto brasileiro. A revisão da literatura e o caso da Petrobras ilustram a variedade de nomes, instituições e práticas articulatórias que se esforçam para manter a atual hegemonia de desenvolvimento numa economia emergente que permite à Petrobras continuar a exercer significante lucro à custa do social e do meio ambiente. A ideia construída de desenvolvimento nos discursos da Petrobras enfatiza uma retórica ampla de desenvolvimento, mas, na realidade, esses discursos são antíteses de questões políticas, sociais e éticas de desenvolvimento. Essas construções objetivam esconder as lutas entre desigualdades sociais e exploração dos recursos naturais as quais constituem pretextos sobre uma fantasiosa noção de desenvolvimento retórico, hegemônico e neoliberal. Em resumo, esta tese contribui para a antecedente literatura em cinco principais aspectos: (i) a adição da DT para a análise da CSA engrandece a discussão de elementos políticos tais como hegemonia, antagonismo, lógica de equivalência/diferença, ideologia e articulação; (ii) a análise de uma economia emergente como o Brasil incorpora uma nova perspectiva nas discussões dos discursos da CSA e do desenvolvimento; (iii) esta tese também inclui um foco na retórica para discutir a manutenção do status quo; (iv) a estrutura holística da abordagem LCE amplia os entendimentos das lógicas sociais, políticas e fantasmáticas dos estudos de CSA e; (v) esta tese combina uma análise da literatura e do caso da Petrobras para caracterizar e criticar o estado da academia brasileira e seus impactos e reflexos na significância da CSA. Esta tese, portanto, argumenta por mais estudos críticos na academia brasileira devido à persistente ideia de desenvolvimento que taken-for-granted profundas exclusões e contradições e proporciona pouco espaço para críticas.

À la lumière des perspectives critiques sur les théories et les pratiques comptables, « la comptabilité pour la durabilité » a émergé comme une discipline relativement nouvelle. Par rapport aux différents modèles développés dans le cadre de l’idéologie néolibérale, certains modèles alternatifs avec des stratégies « plus fortes » de conservation des capitaux, notamment la « Triple Ligne d’Amortissement » (TLA) (Richard, 2012; Rambaud et Richard, 2013), semblent avoir beaucoup des potentiels de faire quelques changements fondamentaux. Cette thèse est une enquête sur les conditions nécessaires et les résistances possibles rencontrées par la mise en place du modèle TLA. Le secteur agricole de la République populaire de Chine est choisi comme le terrain de recherche en vue d’étudier le contexte institutionnel et historique. L’enquête sur le contexte chinois est effectuée en référence aux théories de l’économie politique institutionnaliste, inspiré par Karl Polanyi (2002[1944]), Mancur Olson (1965), and Chang Ha-Joon (1994, 2002)
In the light of critical perspectives on accounting theories and practices, sustainability accounting (SA) as a relatively new discipline has emerged. Compared to various SA models developed under the mainstream neoliberal ideology, some alternative models with “stronger” capital conservation strategies, notably the “Triple Deprecation Line” (TDL) (Richard, 2012; Rambaud & Richard, 2013), seem to have a lot of potentials to make some fundamental changes. This dissertation is essentially an investigation of necessary conditions and possible resistances faced by the establishment of the TDL model. The agriculture sector of the People’s Republic of China is chosen as the field of research in order to study the institutional environment and historical context in real-world settings. The investigation on the Chinese context is conducted with reference to theories of institutionalist political economy, inspired by Karl Polanyi (2002[1944]), Mancur Olson (1965), and Chang Ha-Joon (1994, 2002)

In 2010, Brazil completed the convergence towards the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). As the politics of this process has been little explored, the objective of this thesis is to investigate how the field of accounting regulation was reconstituted during the convergence. Relying on the Bourdieusian concepts of field, capital and habitus, the analysis of accounting regulation in Brazil is split into two phases: firstly, the field as of the early-2000s is mapped through a literature review that identifies its main institutional agents. From the early-2000s on, when the discussions about the creation of a private standard-setter began, the linguistic habitus associated to the field is mapped through discursive analyses of several archival data, including parliamentary proceedings and documents issued by institutional agents that operate in the field. This investigation indicates that the constitution of the field was driven by a relationship of accommodation between the State and the accountancy profession. During the 1970s, an interpretative community linked to the capital markets was consolidated, including financial sector regulators and segments of the professional and academic fields, that issued and disseminated Anglo-American inspired accounting standards framed by a decision-usefulness approach. In opposition, during the 1980s the Federal Council of Accounting (Conselho Federal de Contabilidade - CFC) started to dispute the primacy within the field, issuing accounting standards framed by a discourse of scientificity that preserved the Continental-European influence on Brazilian accounting. From the early-2000s on, the efforts to approve the legislative reforms necessary for the adoption of the IFRS were characterised by a high level of discursive homogeneity: it was claimed that such an adoption would enhance the transparency, comprehensibility, comparability and reliability of the financial reports of Brazilian firms, attracting foreign investments and promoting the economic development of the country. However, none of these claims was supported by substantive empirical evidences. Initially, the CFC opposed the creation of a private standard-setter, claiming that it would undermine the self-regulation of the accountancy profession. In October 2005, though, the CFC itself created the Committee of Accounting Pronouncements (Comitê de Pronunciamentos Contábeis - CPC), apparently solving the conflict that had structured the field until then. The influence of taxation on Brazilian accounting practices played a pivotal role in this process, as a common adversary that justified the alliance between the CFC and the capital market pole. As the CPC frames itself as only a translator and interpreter of the IFRS, the field as a whole is not a space of power anymore, given that substantive decisions in the standard-setting process are not made in Brazil. Nevertheless, some regulators still challenge CPC\'s hegemony, requiring firms under their jurisdictions to prepare and disclose alternative sets of accounts. Contributing for a deeper understanding about the role of local agents in the adoption of the IFRS, this thesis suggests that in Brazil this process was conducted by an interpretative community constituted some decades ago, whose agents exchanged the symbolic capital they previously possessed for the economic capital they earned through the expansion of the market for accounting services.
Em 2010, o Brasil completou a convergência para as Normas Internacionais de Relatório Financeiro (International Financial Reporting Standards - IFRS). Como a política deste processo tem sido pouco explorada, o objetivo desta tese é investigar como o campo da regulação contábil foi reconstituído durante a convergência. Baseando-se nos conceitos bourdieusianos de campo, capital e habitus, a análise da regulação contábil no Brasil é dividida em duas fases: primeiramente, o campo no início dos anos 2000 é mapeado através de revisão de literatura que identifica seus principais agentes institucionais. A partir do início dos anos 2000, quando as discussões sobre a criação de normatizador privado começaram, o habitus linguístico associado ao campo é mapeado através de análises discursivas de vários dados de arquivo, incluindo arquivos parlamentares e documentos emitidos por agentes institucionais que operam no campo. Essa investigação indica que a constituição do campo foi conduzida por uma relação de acomodação entre o Estado e a profissão contábil. Durante a década de 1970, consolidou-se uma comunidade interpretativa ligada aos mercados de capitais, incluindo reguladores do setor financeiro e segmentos dos campos profissional e acadêmico, que emitia e divulgava padrões contábeis de inspiração anglo-americana, moldados por uma abordagem de utilidade para decisão. Em oposição, durante a década de 1980 o Conselho Federal de Contabilidade (CFC) começou a disputar a primazia no campo, emitindo padrões contábeis moldados por um discurso de cientificidade que preservava a influência europeia continental na contabilidade brasileira. A partir do início dos anos 2000, os esforços para aprovar as reformas legislativas necessárias para a adoção das IFRS caracterizaram-se por alto nível de homogeneidade discursiva: Alegava-se que tal adoção aumentaria a transparência, compreensibilidade, comparabilidade e confiabilidade dos relatórios financeiros das empresas brasileiras, atraindo investimentos estrangeiros e promovendo o desenvolvimento econômico do país. No entanto, nenhuma dessas alegações era apoiada por evidências empíricas substantivas. Inicialmente, o CFC se opôs à criação de um normatizador privado, alegando que isso debilitaria a autorregulação da profissão contábil. Em outubro de 2005, porém, o próprio CFC criou o Comitê de Pronunciamentos Contábeis (CPC), aparentemente resolvendo o conflito que havia estruturado o campo até então. A influência da tributação nas práticas contábeis brasileiras desempenhou papel central nesse processo, como um adversário comum que justificou a aliança entre o CFC e o polo do mercado de capitais. Como o CPC enquadra a si próprio apenas como tradutor e intérprete das IFRS, o campo como um todo não é mais um espaço de poder, dado que decisões substantivas no processo de normatização não são tomadas no Brasil. No entanto, alguns reguladores ainda desafiam a hegemonia do CPC, exigindo que as empresas sob suas jurisdições preparem e divulguem demonstrativos contábeis alternativos. Contribuindo para uma compreensão mais profunda sobre o papel de agentes locais na adoção das IFRS, esta tese sugere que no Brasil esse processo foi conduzido por uma comunidade interpretativa constituída há algumas décadas, cujos agentes trocaram o capital simbólico que possuíam anteriormente pelo capital econômico que obtiveram através da expansão do mercado de serviços contábeis.

O objetivo que perseguimos nesta pesquisa foi conhecer especificidades do discurso subjacente às publicações da área contábil a fim de verificar como elas contribuem para o que poderíamos chamar de cultura escrita da área. Secundariamente, buscamos conhecer as identidades/ideologias que emergem da política editorial do contexto da investigação, Revista Contabilidade e Finanças (RC&F), bem como as decorrentes de instituições e fontes de pesquisa representadas pela visão de mundo dos pesquisadores que exercem influência intelectual sobre a concepção de ciência traduzida por esse periódico. A investigação se fundamentou na visão tridimensional de discurso que emerge da Análise do Discurso (AD) de tradição anglo-saxônica de Fairclough (2008) - texto, prática discursiva e prática social. Essa AD considera o discurso como construção histórica e social, apropriando-se de conhecimentos da linguística para evidenciar, no caso específico desta investigação, marcas textuais impactantes na concepção hegemônica de ciência na área contábil. O corpus examinado foi selecionado dos 355 artigos publicados nos últimos 15 anos da RC&F online: inicialmente, identificamos a linha de pesquisa hegemônica (Linha 2 - Contabilidade para usuários externos), em seguida, identificamos agrupamentos em função da Abordagem Temática (AT) para determinar proximidade ideológica dos textos, sem perder o foco na atualidade do discurso produzido. Os resultados revelaram que o discurso emergente dos artigos possui léxico técnico, fundamentado na área Contábil e afins, Administração e Economia, além da Matemática, Estatística e do Direito. Há prevalência de termos com polaridade semântica positiva, estrangeirismos e fragilidade no emprego de alguns argumentos de coesão textual. Como interessa-nos o contínuo aperfeiçoamento dos discursos científicos para fortalecimento da cultura escrita da área, focamos os operadores de argumentação para identificar elementos hegemônicos na tessitura desse discurso. Detectamos superficialidade crítica e reflexiva, uso inapropriado de operadores argumentativos e apoio contínuo em intertextos que acabam homogeneizar o discurso analisado. Há prevalência de ideologia normativa e técnica, pouco ou nada interdisciplinar, com tímida potencialidade de provocar inquietações ou trazer efetivas contribuições à cultura escrita da área. O texto com prática discursiva e social acaba por gerar uma hegemonia fundada no silenciamento dos pesquisadores, e conseguinte reprodução e pactuação com o óbvio, distanciamento de teorias e fuga da criticidade e da realidade social circundante. Tal fato é ratificado pela opinião estabelecida por pesquisadores experientes da área, os quais consideram o discurso científico contábil como: desestruturado, acrítico, intuitivo, imaturo, moldado e descomprometido com a realidade social.
The objective we seek in this research is knowing discourse specificities underlying Accounting scientific publications in order to verify how they contribute to what we may call the area\'s strict culture. We also sought to identify the identities/ideologies that arise from editorial policies of the journal Revista de Contabilidade & Finanças (RC&F), as well as the ones emerging from institutions and research sources represented by the researchers\' view of the world, who exercise intellectual influence on the conception of science translated by this journal. The investigation was based on the discourse\'s three-dimensional view that arises from the Anglo-Saxon tradition of Fairclough\'s (2008) Discourse Analysis (DA) - text, discursive practice and social practice. The DA considers the discourse as a social and historical construction which appropriates the linguistic knowledge to highlight, in the specific case of this research, the textual marks that impact the hegemonic conception of science in the Accounting field. The examined corpus was selected from the 355 papers published in the last 15 years in the online version of RC&F: we first identified the hegemonic area of research (Area 2 - Accounting for external users) and, then, we identified groups formed according to the Thematic Approach (TA) in order to determine the texts\' ideological proximity, without losing focus on the discourse timeliness. The results show that the discourse arising from the papers has technical lexicon from Accounting and similar areas, Business and Economics, besides Mathematics, Statistics and Law. Expressions with positive semantic polarity, foreign expressions, and lack of textual cohesion while employing some arguments are prevalent. As we are interested in the continuous improvement of scientific discourse to strengthen this area\'s writing culture, we focus the argument operators to identify hegemonic elements in discourse construction. We detect critical and reflexive superficiality, inappropriate use of argumentative operators and ongoing support in inter-texts that end up homogenizing analyzed discourse. There is prevalence of normative and technical ideology, with little or none interdisciplinarity and timid potential to cause concerns or to bring effective contributions to the written culture of the area. The text with discursive and social practice ends up generating a hegemony founded on researchers silencing, and, latter, reproduction and agreement with the obvious, detachment to theories, and avoidance of the criticality and the surrounding social reality. This fact is ratified by the opinion established by experienced researchers in the field, which consider the accounting scientific discourse as unstructured, uncritical, intuitive, immature, molded and unengaged with social reality

No atual ambiente corporativo, a implementação de mudanças organizacionais tornou-se um fato freqüente. Nesse processo de mudanças, o discurso organizacional presente nos textos produzidos pela alta administração, que constituem o discurso formal, acaba expressando pensamentos nem sempre aceitos sem questionamentos por todos os gestores da organização, dificultando o processo de mudança. A presença de discursos menos coerentes ou de discursos que competem com o discurso organizacional pode dificultar ou mesmo comprometer a eficácia do processo de mudança. Esta tese defende que, na ocorrência de um processo de mudança da Contabilidade Gerencial numa organização, o discurso influencia os níveis de institucionalização de novos conceitos que se desejam implementados. Para realizar o estudo a respeito dessa influência, utilizou-se de uma abordagem da Teoria Institucional, sob o enfoque da Velha Economia Institucional, usando-se como arcabouço teórico o modelo proposto por Burns e Scapens (2000), com ênfase nos estágios de codificação e institucionalização, bem como o modelo discursivo de institucionalização proposto por Phillips et al. (2004). O método de pesquisa aplicado foi o estudo de caso único, realizado na Caixa Econômica Federal, uma instituição financeira pública de grande porte que realiza simultaneamente atividades de natureza social (como uma agência governamental de fomento e administração exclusiva de fundos) e de natureza econômica (como um banco comercial que compete com outras instituições no mercado financeiro), a qual passou recentemente por um processo de mudanças profundas em sua Contabilidade Gerencial. Por meio da análise documental, seguida da realização de entrevistas com gestores da administração central e da análise do discurso, foi possível detectar a coexistência de dois discursos na organização: discurso social e discurso econômico. Posteriormente, foram aplicados questionários aos gestores das agências e gestores de produtos, usuários do Sistema de Contabilidade Gerencial, obtendo-se 4.259 respostas, no intuito de se verificar a ocorrência de associações entre os discursos e os níveis de institucionalização dos novos conceitos implementados na mudança. Os dados coletados foram objeto dos seguintes tratamentos estatísticos: estatística descritiva, Análise da Variância (ANOVA), Análise de Homogeneidade (Homals) e Análise de Correspondência (ANACOR). Verificou-se que há uma associação positiva entre a concordância com os conceitos de Contabilidade Gerencial e a concordância com o discurso econômico. Os indivíduos classificados como mais aderentes ao discurso econômico encontram-se associados positivamente entre um nível de institucionalização forte e médio, enquanto os indivíduos classificados como aderentes ao discurso social apresentaram associação positiva com o nível de institucionalização fraco. Dessa forma, os resultados sugerem que há influência do discurso no processo de institucionalização de conceitos de Contabilidade Gerencial, corroborando as proposições de Phillips et al. (2004), de que uma maior coerência entre discursos e conceitos presentes em textos tende a produzir instituições mais fortes e a existência de competição, entre dois discursos, pode dificultar um processo de mudança conceitual. À luz desses resultados, infere-se que o discurso, quando inserido em um processo de mudança conceitual, deva ser estruturado de acordo com as características e com o repertório de crenças de seu público-alvo, o que poderá provocar uma união coerente entre o exercício da linguagem e a prática operacional, possibilitando a transformação do campo institucional para o campo de ação de forma eficaz.
Within the current corporative environment, the implementation of organizational changes has been frequent. In this process of changes, the organizational discourse, found in the formal texts produced by the high administration, eventually expresses thoughts not always accepted before being firstly questioned by the other managers and that may cause difficulties for the changing process. The presence of less coherent discourses or discourses that challenge the organizational discourse may hinder or even affect the efficacy of changes. This thesis advocates that during a changing process within the Managerial Accounting of an organization, the discourse influences the levels for institutionalizing new concepts. This study of such influence was carried out by means of the Institutional Theory under the focus of the Old Institutional Economy, having as its theoretical framework the model proposed by Burns & Scapens (2000), emphasizing the stages of codification and institutionalization, as well as the discourse model of institutionalization proposed by Phillips et al. (2004). The research method consisted of a single case study related to Caixa Econômica Federal, a large public financial institution which performs social activities (as a governmental agency for funding and exclusive administration of funds) and economical activities (as a commercial bank which competes with other institutions in the financial market), which has recently undergone a process of deep changes in its Managerial Accounting. Through an analysis of documents, followed by interviews with central administration managers and discourse analysis, the co-existence of two discourses in the organization could be detected: social discourse and economical discourse. Later, questionnaires were applied to the managers of the bank branches and the managers of products, and to the users of the Managerial Accounting System in order to verify associations between the discourses and the levels of institutionalization of the new concepts. Out of the questionnaires, 4,259 answers were obtained. The data were submitted to the following statistical treatments: descriptive analysis, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Analysis of Homogeneity (Homals) and Analysis of Correspondence (ANACOR). It could be verified that there is a positive association between the concordance with the concepts of Managerial Accounting and a concordance with the economical discourse. The individuals classified as most adherent to the economical discourse are those positively associated with and between a strong or average level of institutionalization. On the other hand, those individuals adherent to the social discourse have a positive association with the weak level of institutionalization. Thus, the results suggest that the discourse influences the process for institutionalizing concepts of Managerial Accounting and corroborate the propositions of Phillips et al (2004) for a greater coherence between discourses, that concepts within texts may lead to stronger institutions, and that the existence of competition between two discourses may hinder the process of conceptual change. In face of these results one may say that the discourse, whenever placed in a process of conceptual change, must be structured according to the characteristics and beliefs of the target public, which may cause a coherent union between the exercise of the language and the operational practice and allow for an efficient transformation of the institutional site into a field of action.

Esta tese busca investigar como o controle gerencial pode apoiar o gerenciamento do relacionamento com empresas terceirizadas. A literatura oferece pouca evidência empírica sobre o papel do controle gerencial no relacionamento entre empresas, vindo esta pesquisa a ampliar o conhecimento sobre relacionamento entre empresas por meio do uso da Teoria Institucional e da Análise do Discurso. Esta tese adota uma abordagem interpretativa e conduz uma pesquisa qualitativa baseada em um único estudo de caso em uma empresa de distribuição do setor elétrico. Buscou-se analisar não apenas se existe o controle gerencial, mas de que forma este influencia o relacionamento entre empresas. Dentre os resultados apresentados está o fato de que, embora a existência da controladoria não necessariamente contribua para apoiar o gerenciamento das empresas terceirizadas, a existência da sua estrutura, em decorrência do seu uso, trouxe impacto e gerou aperfeiçoamento ao processo, como por exemplo, o uso do Balanced Scorecard para criação de indicadores financeiros na avaliação de fornecedores. Não foram encontradas muitas das ferramentas apregoadas pela literatura como apropriadas ao gerenciamento do relacionamento entre empresas, tais como custo-alvo, open-book, contabilidade da cadeia de valor, sistemas de informação integrada e custo total da propriedade. No entanto, foram encontrados diversos mecanismos de controle informais, não financeiros e qualitativos. Isto porque a empresa pesquisada optou por estabelecer o controle nas atividades e não nas informações financeiras, como se percebe no discurso da realização de fiscalizações e auditorias para controle da qualidade. Assim, enquanto as demais formas de controle atuam constantemente no dia a dia da empresa, os controles contábeis são empregados apenas esporadicamente para determinadas avaliações. A motivação para isso é explicada pela Teoria Institucional, uma vez que este tipo de acompanhamento é capaz de promover incentivo, comunicação, controle e estabilidade nas relações, sendo mais prático, fácil e aceitável politicamente. No entanto, a tentativa de inclusão de medidas financeiras se trata de uma melhoria. Ainda como resultados desta pesquisa, foram identificados diversos discursos relacionados entre si. Alguns são contraditórios, como é o caso dos discursos da contratação com base na avaliação financeira dos fornecedores e com base no menor preço, sendo que o discurso da avaliação financeira é relativamente recente e surgiu em função de problemas e prejuízos financeiros ocorridos com fornecedores e espera-se que, no futuro, tal discurso se sobreponha ao discurso do menor preço. É interessante observar, ainda, o relacionamento entre dois outros discursos: controle e confiança. Observou-se que a confiança em terceirizados que prestam serviços há mais de duas décadas oferece resistência à implementação de um novo sistema de avaliação de fornecedores, fazendo com que a classificação e a premiação dos fornecedores não tenham trazido implicações práticas na contratação dos mesmos. Isto corrobora com a ideia de que quanto maior a confiança, menor o controle. Por outro lado, certas ferramentas de controle gerencial, como o open-book, não são implementadas, justamente porque não há confiança nas informações financeiras prestadas pelas empresas terceirizadas. Ferramentas de controle gerencial poderiam aumentar a confiança entre as partes do relacionamento. Como conclusão, pode-se dizer que os valores e crenças influenciam desde a decisão de terceirizar ou não as atividades e quais atividades terceirizar, até a forma como as empresas terceirizadas serão selecionadas, contratadas, avaliadas e acompanhadas. Todo o processo de mudanças políticas, econômicas e administrativas permeou a forma como a empresa pesquisada se relaciona com seus fornecedores e como o controle gerencial pode auxiliar o gerenciamento deste relacionamento.
This thesis investigates how management controls can support the management of relationships with third-party companies. There is little empirical evidence in the accounting literature regarding the role of management controls in the relationship between companies; this research aims to expand knowledge about this relationship, through the use of Institutional Theory and discourse analysis. This thesis adopts an interpretative approach and conducts a qualitative research based on a single case study in a distribution company of the electric sector. This study examines not only which management controls are used, but also how they affect the relationship between companies. The findings show that, although the existence of the Controllership department does not necessarily contribute to supporting the management of third-party companies, the existence of its structure, impacted and improved the process. One example of this was the use of the Balanced Scorecard for creating financial indicators in evaluating suppliers. It was also found that many of the tools, which appear frequently in the literature, are appropriate to the management of business-to-business relationships. Examples are target costing, open-book accounting, value chain accounting, integrated information systems and total cost of ownership. In addition, this study found evidence of several informal, non-financial and qualitative control mechanisms. This is because the case company focused on establishing control on the activities instead of the financial information. This was observed in the discourse about quality control fiscalisation and audit checks. Thus, while other forms of control act constantly in the company\'s day-today; accounting controls are employed only sporadically for certain reviews. The motivation for this is explained by institutional theory, since this type of monitoring is able to promote encouragement, communication, control, and stability in relationships, being more practical, easier, and more politically acceptable. However, the attempt to include financial measures was an improvement. Moreover, this research also identified that several discourses were related to each another. In fact, some of them are contradictory, for example the discourses about hiring based on the financial assessment of suppliers, or based on the lowest price. The discourse of financial evaluation is relatively recent and has emerged in light of problems and financial losses which happened with suppliers. It is expected that, in the future, such a discourse replaces the idea of choosing according to the lowest price. It is interesting to note the relationship between two other discourses: control and trust. It was observed that the trust on contractors providing services for more than two decades creates resistance to the implementation of the new system of evaluation of suppliers. This makes the ranking and the rewards of the suppliers to have brought practical implications in hiring them. This corroborates with the idea that the greater the trust the less the control. On the contrary, certain tools of managerial control, such as the open-book, are not implemented, because there is no confidence in the financial information provided by third-party companies. Managerial control tools could enhance trust and confidence among the parties of the relationship. As a conclusion, it can be argued that the values and beliefs influence the decision to outsource activities and which activities, and also the way companies selected will be hired, evaluated and monitored. The whole process of changing political, economic and administrative influenced the way this company relates to its suppliers and the managerial control can help the management of this relationship.

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This study explores discourses which relate to child sexual abuse and which seek to excuse or justify it. It is hypothesized that these discourses are wide-spread and are not held simply by a small minority of offenders. Similar discourses emerged in two very different groups of male subjects. The first comprised 45 male second year University of Cape Town students in the Department of Psychology in 1986, who enrolled for a gender socialization course credit option. The second consists of 26 alleged child sexual abusers admitted to Valkenberg Hospital for psychiatric observation in 1988/9. A discourse analysis methodology is used to analyse essays written by the students and transcripts of audiotaped groups in which they participated, as well as accounts of the alleged offence contained in the clinical records of the observation cases. Ten discoqrse1;i, relating to excuses or justifications for child sexual abuse, were identified by their repeated occurrence in the research material. Identified justifications of child sexual abuse are victim blaming, the belief that men are unable to control their sexual drive, the assertion of power, perceived rights over women, and doubting the evidence of girls and women. Illustrations of these discourses, which are present in both students' essays and groups, as well as in the alleged offenders' accounts, are discussed. These five discourses appear to be pervasive and may be indicative of generally held beliefs which relate to the different positions in which men and women are placed in society.

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The Integrated Report – IR as an instrument of voluntary disclosure of financial and non- financial information has been object of study and investigation regarding its usage and implementation by companies and its benefits. This study advances on such discussion, and, in an innovative way, explains, through discourse analysis and using the Suchman’s model, on what ways the voluntary disclosure about the natural environment have been used by open capital companies as a form of social legitimation through Integrated Reports (IR), including comparing the companies’ behavior according to its environmental impact of their operational activities. Suchman’s model considers that the managers may, strategically, through instruments of voluntary disclosure, gain, maintain, or recover the legitimacy on pragmatic, moral, or cognitive levels, employing different strategies and behavioral dynamics. The amount of 1,821 discourses about the natural environment have been analyzed, in the IR published in 2016, regarding the base year 2015, of eleven open capital companies with activities of low, medium and high environmental impacts, that participated on the BM&FBOVESPA stock market in June 2016, and declared that elaborated the reports based on the framework proposed by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). This study is categorized as qualitative, regarding the research problem; as for the objective, it is descriptive; as for the proceedings of documental data collecting, as a temporal cross- sectional perspective, since the study was carried out the period between October 2016 and June 2017. The results demonstrate that the discourse about the environment contained in the analyzed IRs have been used as ways of social legitimation by the companies in a similar manner among open capital companies with low, medium, and high environmental impacts. The predominant category employed in the discourses was to gain legitimacy in a cognitive manner, especially regarding behavioral dynamics to build reputation, formalize operations, talk naturally about the subject, and demonstrate success, and the strategies were to adapt to a model, to demands, ideals, and that protect assumptions. It can be concluded that the IRs are being used as means of management of social legitimation through voluntary disclosure of information about the natural environment, spread in different sections of the report, appearing as texts, tables, and images, with implicit and explicit strategies. These findings make it possible for report writers, shareholders, and stakeholders to understand that not all of the managers’ intentions are evident in voluntary information communication about the natural environment. For future studies, it is suggested to analyze the discourse of other capitals disclosed in the IRs; reapply this study in future periods, on the same sample, to investigate if there was any change in the way social legitimacy is sought, including procedures of intention examination, through structured interview with the IR writers; apply the study in foreign open capital companies, in order to compare behavior regarding the search for social legitimacy, in Suchman’s model.
O Relato Integrado – RI como instrumento de divulgação voluntária de informações financeiras e não financeiras tem sido objeto de análise e investigação sobre sua adoção e implantação pelas empresas e seus benefícios. Este estudo avança nesta discussão e, de forma inovadora explica, a partir da análise do discurso e do modelo de Suchman, de que maneira as divulgações voluntárias sobre meio ambiente natural têm sido utilizadas pelas companhias de capital aberto como mecanismo de legitimação social por meio dos Relatos Integrados – RIs, inclusive comparando o comportamento das companhias conforme o impacto ambiental de suas atividades operacionais. O modelo de Suchman considera que os gestores podem, estrategicamente, por meio de instrumentos de divulgação voluntária, ganhar, manter ou recuperar a legitimidade de forma pragmática, moral ou cognitiva, a partir de diferentes estratégias e dinâmicas comportamentais. Foram analisados 1.821 discursos sobre meio ambiente natural, contidos nos RIs divulgados em 2016, referentes ao ano-base 2015, de 11 (onze) companhias abertas com atividades de alto, médio e baixo impactos ambientais, que participaram do pregão da BM&FBOVESPA em junho de 2016 e declararam que elaboraram os relatórios com base no framework proposto pelo International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). Este estudo, quanto ao problema, se classifica como qualitativo; quanto ao objetivo, descritivo; quanto ao procedimento de coleta de dados documental, em uma perspectiva temporal transversal, visto que o estudo foi realizado no período de outubro de 2016 a junho de 2017. Os resultados demonstram que os discursos sobre meio ambiente natural contidos nos RIs analisados têm sido utilizados como mecanismo de legitimação social pelas empresas de maneira semelhante entre as companhias de capital aberto com atividades de alto, médio e baixo impactos ambientais. A categoria predominante nos discursos foi para ganhar legitimidade de forma cognitiva, prevalecendo às dinâmicas comportamentais para construir reputação, formalizar as operações, falar do assunto com naturalidade e demonstrar sucesso, e as estratégias foram as que visam adaptar-se aos modelos, às exigências e aos ideais e proteger pressupostos. Pode-se concluir que os RIs estão sendo utilizados como mecanismo de gerenciamento de legitimidade social através das divulgações de informações voluntárias sobre meio ambiente natural, propagadas em diferentes seções do relato, apresentando-se em forma de textos, tabelas e imagens, com estratégias implícitas e explícitas. Estas constatações oportunizam aos preparadores dos RIs e aos shareholders e stakeholders compreender que nem todas as intenções dos gestores estão evidentes na comunicação voluntária de informações sobre o meio ambiente natural. Para estudos futuros sugere-se: analisar os discursos dos demais capitais divulgados nos RIs; reaplicar o estudo em períodos futuros, na mesma amostra, para constatar se houve mudança na maneira de buscar legitimidade social incluindo procedimento de levantamento das intenções, através de entrevista estruturada com os preparadores dos RIs; aplicar o estudo em companhias de capital aberto estrangeiras para fins de comparação dos comportamentos em relação à busca pela legitimidade social, no modelo de Suchman.

O objetivo geral deste trabalho foi compreender o atual estágio da Cultura Organizacional Acadêmica (COA) em duas Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) brasileiras, visando identificar possíveis relações entre a cultura e os resultados decorrentes do desempenho dessas IES. A revisão da literatura contemplou as principais teorias sobre cultura organizacional (CO), principalmente as abordagens de Schein (2009), Denison et al. (2012) e Hofstede (2003), além de referenciais empíricos de pesquisadores que se basearam nas abordagens desses autores. A metodologia utilizada teve predomínio qualitativo, com base em etnografia, elementos da observação participante e uso de entrevistas, tanto em profundidade quanto semiestruturadas, que foram gravadas para posterior transcrição e edição. Para o tratamento dos conteúdos das entrevistas, utilizou-se a técnica do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo (DSC) de Fernando Lefevre e Ana Lefevre (2012), com o emprego do software Qualiquantisoft. O campo empírico abrangeu dois cursos de Ciências Contábeis de duas universidades públicas estaduais, contatadas por acessibilidade. Estes cursos foram o do Departamento de Contabilidade e Atuária da Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade da Universidade de São Paulo [FEA/USP] e o do Departamento de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, na Bahia [DCIS/UEFS]. Foram entrevistados 10 docentes do curso da FEA/USP e oito docentes do curso do DCIS/UEFS. Também foi aplicado um questionário para 122 alunos do curso da FEA/USP e 84 alunos do curso do DCIS/UEFS. Os resultados principais são que o atual estágio da COA nos dois cursos das duas IES apresenta-se em polos diametralmente opostos, ou seja, há força na COA do curso da USP, que se reflete na responsabilidade de manter, no presente, os padrões alcançados no passado, e buscar aumentar essa alta referência e visibilidade do curso no país e na América Latina, com orientação estratégica para internacionalização. Em contrapartida, a situação do curso da UEFS é oposta, na qual, de acordo com seus docentes, ele atravessa um período de queda na sua COA, a qual se mantém basicamente adormecida frente às mudanças do ambiente externo, que se reflete em queda dos níveis de qualidade do curso e dos níveis de motivação dos alunos e docentes. Em síntese, os resultados decorrentes do desempenho do curso têm forte dependência da força e solidez de sua COA, materializada na responsabilidade, qualificação e empenho de seus membros (docentes e gestores).
The aim of this study was to understand the current state of Academic Organizational Culture (AOC) in two Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), to identify possible relationships between culture and the results arising from the performance of these HEIs. The literature review included the major theories of organizational culture (OC), especially the approaches to Schein (2009), Denison et al. (2012) and Hofstede (2003), and empirical references of researchers that were based on the approaches of these authors. The methodology used was predominantly qualitative, based on ethnography, participant observation elements and use of interviews, both in depth as semistructured that were recorded for later editing and transcription. For the treatment of the content of the interviews, we used the technique of the Collective Subject Discourse (CSD) of Fernando Lefevre and Ana Lefevre (2012) with the use of Qualiquantisoft software. The empirical field covered two Accounting courses at two state universities, contacted by accessibility. These courses were the Department of Accounting and Actuarial Science at the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy at the University of São Paulo [FEA/USP] and the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the State University of Feira de Santana in Bahia [DCIS/UEFS]. 10 professors of the course of FEA / USP and eight professors of the course of DCIS/UEFS were interviewed. Also a questionnaire was applied to 122 students of the FEA / USP and 84 students of the DCIS/UEFS. The main results are that the current stage of the AOC in both courses of the two HEIs comes in diametrically opposite poles, that is, there is strength in the AOC of USP course, which is reflected in the responsibility of maintaining, at present, the achieved standards in the past and seek to increase this high reference and visibility of progress in the country, Latin America, with strategic direction for internationalization. In contrast, the current situation at UEFS is opposite, in which, according to their teaching, is being through a falling period of its AOC, that remains essentially dormant facing the external environment changes, which is reflects the fall of current quality and motivation levels of students and professors. In summary, the results from the course of the performance have a strong dependence of the strength and solidity of its AOC materialized responsibility, skills and commitment of its members (professors and administrators)

Cette recherche tente de clarifier la discussion autour de la répartition des charges indirectes, recenser les attitudes des entreprises confrontées au problème de la répartition et analyser les différents discours qui l'entourent. Nous nous sommes posé ici la question suivante : existe-t-il une technique de répartition qui soit intrinsèquement meilleure que les autres ? Pour nous, ce qui importe, ce n'est pas la technique (ou la méthode) de répartition, mais le sens qui émerge des pratiques et des discours. Il est donc nécessaire de changer de perspective sur la répartition, c'est-à-dire ne plus raisonner en termes de méthodes, mais chercher plutôt à comprendre ce phénomène en tant que délibération datée et contingente. Nous défendons ici l'idée que la répartition des charges indirectes constitue un processus (ou un phénomène organisationnel) qui prend des sens multiples. Ces sens émergent de la dialectique entre pratiques et discours, qui cache en réalité l'intervention de trois catégories d'acteurs : les entreprises, les scientifiques et les consultants. Dans ces conditions, non seulement il n'existe pas de technique de répartition qui soit intrinsèquement meilleure que les autres, mais il est impossible même de concevoir et de définir une telle technique.

Ce projet doctoral élabore une méthodologie qui tente de dévoiler ce que dit le rédacteur de l'article scientifique en géologie à propos de son travail de terrain, mais sans le dire explicitement : le " silence textuel ". La méthode consiste en l'analyse linguistique du " texte " (un corpus de 106 comptes rendus de terrain) par opposition au " contexte ", afin d'en faire émerger le sens caché et le non-dit. Le contexte est analysé de manière qualitative: (1) une étude socio-historique (1700-1995) de l'importance du terrain dans la culture géologique, et spécifiquement en France à partir de 1900 ; (2) une étude ethnométhodologique des pratiques et des valeurs d'un groupe de géologues de terrain francophones ; et (3) l'analyse d'une série de recontextualisations d'un travail de terrain, qui se transforme progressivement en publication. Cette transformation montre l'influence de la communauté scientifique sur la façon dont l'écrit produit sur le terrain se conforme progressivement aux conventions écrites de la communauté scientifique.

The purpose of this ethnographic case study is to document multimodal literacy and numeracy practices of seven Saudi postgraduate students enrolled in the Master of Commerce Accounting program at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Specifically, it aims to investigate the interrelated dimensions of multimodal texts, literacy and numeracy practices, and contexts. The study employs a multidimensional framework for researching the participants’ literacy and numeracy practices in three course modules: Accounting Concepts and Methods, Principles of Finance, and Management Accounting. The study includes a metadiscourse analysis of collaborative wiki literacy practices in the Intermediate Financial Reporting module. The framework consists of three stages of analysis: description of literacy and numeracy requirements, description of literacy events and participants’ actual practices and their experiences, and a Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis (SF-MDA) of Business texts. The analysis of the study is primarily based on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) (Halliday, 1985; Halliday & Hasan, 1976; Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004). The findings of the case study revealed the academic literacy and numeracy practices students were expected to manage with in key topics in the business modules. The analysis of the three accounting modules and the online literacy practices revealed the multimodal and multisemiotic nature of accounting discourse, diversity of text type, the literacy and numeracy practices, and features of collaborative learning. The multiple-perspective framework has implications for the investigation of tertiary students’ literacy practices in other disciplines with the application of an SF-MDA of financial statements, graphs, and mathematical symbolism.
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2014