Dissertation abstracted are: Technology and Organization: Steel Rail Innovation and Railroad Survivorship in the American Manufacturing Region, 1860-1890 by David Paul Marple; The State and the Beginnings of the Railroad Grandes Lignes Network in...
Dissertations abstracted are: Study of Governmental Accounting in China: With Special Reference to the Sung Dynasty (960-1279) by Philip Yuen-Ko Fu; An Analysis of the Development and Nature of Accounting Principles in Japan ( by Yukio Fujita; The...
Scott, DR (1887-1954). Cultural Significance of Accounts;Accounting -- Research
Cushing's [1989] recent analysis of Kuhn's [1970] characterization of the state of crisis within a discipline's research agenda suggests that the accounting discipline is showing symptoms of such a crisis. In this paper, DR Scott's [1931] classical...
Bibliographical citations -- Evaluation;Accounting -- Research -- Methodology;Empiricism
Little or nothing is said of empiricism in U.S. accounting literature during the first half of the twentieth century in accounting history literature. The objectives of this study are threefold: (1) to determine if an empirical accounting...
Books reviewed are: R. Dan Brumbaugh, Jr., Thrifts Under Siege. Paul Zane Pilzer, Other Peoples Money. Stephen Pizzo, Mary Flicker, and Paul Muolo, Inside Job: The Looting of Americas Savings and Loans. A Review Essay: The Savings and Loan Crisis...
Introduction by Sidney Davidson (Arthur Young Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Accounting and former Dean, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business) Induction citation by Thomas J. Burns (Professor and Chairman Committee on...