Accounting, Organizations and Society explained

Accounting, Organizations and Society
Editor:Marcia Annisette, Mark E. Peecher, Keith Robson
Discipline:Accounting
Abbreviation:Account. Organ. Soc.
Publisher:Elsevier
Frequency:8/year
History:1975–present
Impact:4.000
Impact-Year:2020
Website:http://www.journals.elsevier.com/accounting-organizations-and-society/
Link2:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03613682
Link2-Name:Online archive
Oclc:716356215
Lccn:81642472
Issn:0361-3682

Accounting, Organizations and Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier. Its editors-in-chief are Marcia Annisette (Schulich School of Business), Mark E. Peecher (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign), and Keith Robson (HEC Paris). The journal focuses on the relationships between accounting and both human behaviour and organizations' structures, processes, social, and political environments: that is, relationships among accounting, organizations, and society.

History

The journal was established in 1975 at Pergamon Press 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.[1] Hopwood and colleagues defined the programmatic aims of the journal in its early years.[2] 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.[3] [4] [5] Robson served as sole editor-in-chief until the appointment of Peecher and Annisette as co-editors-in-chief in September 2018.[6]

Reception

The journal is reputed to publish high quality and innovative research work.[7] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 2.077.[8] It is among the 50 journals used to compile the "Financial Times Research Rank".[9] It is also included in the highest rank of academic journals by the Australian Business Deans Council.[10] According to a 2006 meta-analysis 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.[11]

According to Google Scholar, the most cited articles are:

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, RePEc, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 4.000, ranking it 19th out of 108 in the category of Finance.[12]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions: Essays in Honour of Anthony Hopwood . 2009 . . 978-0191609374 . Christopher S. Chapman . David J. Cooper . Peter Miller.
  2. Burchell . Stuart . Clubb . Colin . Hopwood . Anthony . Hughes . John . Nahapiet . Janine . The Roles of Accounting in Organizations and Society . Accounting, Organizations and Society . 1980 . 5 . 1 . 5–27. 10.1016/0361-3682(80)90017-3 .
  3. Hopwood . Anthony G. . Reflections and projections – and many, many thanks . Accounting, Organizations and Society . 2009 . 34 . 8 . 887–894 . 10.1016/j.aos.2009.08.002.
  4. Chapman . Christopher S. . Reiterations and anticipations – And many, many thanks . Accounting, Organizations and Society . 2010 . 35 . 1 . 1 . 10.1016/j.aos.2010.01.002.
  5. Web site: Keith Robson, HEC Paris Professor, named Editor-in-Chief of Accounting, Organizations and Society . 2 December 2015 . HEC.edu . 8 October 2018.
  6. Web site: Changes in the editorial team . 1 September 2018 . journals.elsevier.com . 8 October 2018.
  7. Moser . Donald V. . Is Accounting Research Stagnant? . . 2012 . 26 . 4 . 845–850 . 10.2308/acch-10312.
  8. Book: 2018 . Accounting, Organizations and Society . 2017 Journal Citation Reports . . Science OR Social Sciences . Web of Science. Journal Citation Reports .
  9. News: Ormans . Laurent . 50 Journals used in FT Research Rank . 27 November 2018 . . 22 February 2012.
  10. Web site: Master Journal List . Australian Business Deans Council . 17 November 2018.
  11. Bonner . Sarah E. . James W. . Hesford . Wim A. . Van der Stede . S. Mark . Young . The most influential journals in academic accounting . Accounting, Organizations and Society . 2006 . 31. 7 . 663–685 . 10.1016/j.aos.2005.06.003.
  12. Book: 2021 . Accounting, Organizations and Society . 2020 Journal Citation Reports . . Science . Web of Science. Journal Citation Reports .

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