Book review Two hundred years of accounting research: An international survey of personalities and publications (from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century) Richard Mattessich Routledge (Routledge New Works in Accounting History), London, 2007, xx + 609pp. ISBN: 978—0—415—77256—7 SAGE Publications, Inc. 200910.1177/1032373209346918 © 2009 The Author The Author MichaelGaffikin University of Wollongong Early in my career as an academic accountant I enquired of a distinguished US visiting scholar why there seemed to be little attention paid in the USA to the work of Richard Mattessich. His reply suggested that people did not really understand his work. I took this as a comment on the state of accounting academe rather than what I perceived to be the contribution to accounting methodology and theorizing of Mattessich. After all, he and Chambers were the two major scholars who, in the 1950s, made the call for greater intellectual rigour in accounting. More than half a century later, in this book, Mattessich is still making a major contribution to accounting scholarship. The book is, as he indicates, a survey of the efforts of those who “have invested in accounting publications and research during a period of
Book review: Two hundred years of accounting research: An international survey of personalities and publications (from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century):Richard Mattessich Routledge (Routledge New Works in Accounting History), London, 2007, xx + 609pp. ISBN: 978—0—415—77256—7
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Book review Two hundred years of accounting research: An international survey of personalities and publications (from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century) Richard Mattessich Routledge (Routledge New Works in Accounting History), London, 2007, xx + 609pp. ISBN: 978—0—415—77256—7 SAGE Publications, Inc. 200910.1177/1032373209346918 © 2009 The Author The Author MichaelGaffikin University of Wollongong Early in my career as an academic accountant I enquired of a distinguished US visiting scholar why there seemed to be little attention paid in the USA to the work of Richard Mattessich. His reply suggested that people did not really understand his work. I took this as a comment on the state of accounting academe rather than what I perceived to be the contribution to accounting methodology and theorizing of Mattessich. After all, he and Chambers were the two major scholars who, in the 1950s, made the call for greater intellectual rigour in accounting. More than half a century later, in this book, Mattessich is still making a major contribution to accounting scholarship. The book is, as he indicates, a survey of the efforts of those who “have invested in accounting publications and research during a period ofPreview Only. This article cannot be rented because we do not currently have permission from the publisher.
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Book review: Two hundred years of accounting research: An international survey of personalities and publications (from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century):Richard Mattessich Routledge (Routledge New Works in Accounting History), London, 2007, xx + 609pp. ISBN: 978—0—415—77256—7
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