Organizing transnational accountability

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In response, this book focuses on the development of accountability tools and techniques as well as on the organizational arrangements and political struggles behind such endeavours. This unique study theorizes the emerging accountability and corporate social responsibility movement at the transnational : Hardcover.

Organizing Transnational Accountability Edited by Magnus Boström and Christina Garsten This book adds a multi-disciplinary organizational perspective to the theoretical analysis of political accountability and argues for a broadening of the conventional understanding of the concepts of responsibility and by: 2.

Organizing Transnational Accountability Edited by Magnus Boström and Christina Garsten This book adds a multi-disciplinary organizational perspective to the theoretical analysis of political accountability and argues for a broadening of the conventional understanding of the concepts of responsibility and accountability.

Organizing Transnational Accountability will be an important and invaluable read for researchers, policymakers and students of social anthropology, sociology, organization theory, political science and critical accounting at graduate levels and above.

Summary: There is increasing pressure for accountability, driven by such factors as the globalization of markets, environmental destruction and the violation of human rights.

This book focuses on the development of accountability tools and techniques as well as on the organizational arrangements and political struggles behind such endeavours. Organizing transnational accountability. [Christina Garsten; Magnus Boström;] -- In a world where accountability is seen as increasingly important, this multi-disciplinary work focuses on the development of accountability tools and techniques as well as on the organizational.

This interdisciplinary book uniquely focuses on the organizational structures and procedures to enable transnational rule setting in accounting, which will prove invaluable to accounting : Paperback. Organizing Transnational Accountability, M.

Boström, C. Garsten (Eds.). Cheltenhamn, Edward Elgar () Article (PDF Available) March with 33 Reads. Organizing transnational accountability Boström, Magnus Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE).

12 Accountability, public involvement and (ir)reversibility Linda Soneryd and Rolf Lidskog 13 The antinomy of accountability Luigi Pellizzoni 14 The treadmill of accountability Magnus Bostrom and Christina Garsten Afterword: organizing transnational accountability.

Organizing Transnational Accountability Edited by Magnus Boström and Christina Garsten This book adds a multi-disciplinary organizational perspective to the theoretical analysis of political accountability and argues for a broadening of the conventional understanding of the concepts of responsibility and by: 3.

Organizing Transnational Accountability Edited by Magnus Boström and Christina GarstenCited by: 1. (English) In: Organizing Transnational Accountability / [ed] Boström, Magnus & Garsten, Christina, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar,p.

Chapter in book (Other academic) Place, publisher, year, edition, pages Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. transnational forces and the people whose lives they affect. With illustrative analyses of a wide range of transnational forces, I illuminate the complicated and sometimes unexpected creation and unraveling of accountability rela-tionships.

This book looks at five kinds of transnational forces (economic. For more than a decade, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and grassroots movements have formed transnational coalitions to reform the World Bank and the governments that it funds.

The Struggle for Accountability assesses the efforts of these groups to make the World Bank more publicly accountable. The book is organized into four parts. The Politics of Accounting Regulation: Organizing Transnational Standard Setting in Financial Reporting Book January with Reads How we measure 'reads'.

Transnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing Against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh By Elora Halim Chowdhury Book Review Acts of gender-based violence such as acid attacks, “honour killings,” and dowry deaths have garnered increasing global attention in recent years. These acts are commonly attributed to “cultural” or “religious” practices, a depiction devoid of any historical.

With Organizing the Transnational: Labour, Politics, and Social Change, Luin Goldring and Sailaja Krishnamurti present the diversity and expression of transnationalism as both concept and reality. By incorporating non-academics in this discussion, the collection expands the current debate on transnationalism to include the perspectives of non-governmental actors and agencies.

Cited by: Book Description. Corporate Accountability in the Context of Transitional Justice explores how corporations can be held accountable for their role in past human rights violations when a country is making a transition from conflict or repression to peace and democracy.

It breaks new ground in theorizing the linkages between the areas of transitional justice and corporate accountability and. This paper analyses the development of a transnational accountability regime, – the Generally Accepted Principles and Practices (GAPP), introduced in for sovereign wealth funds.

Although I articulated this critique in a number of articles and book chapters (see the references listed below), it is present in its most developed form in In Search of Transnational Policing. 8 In essence, I argued that the official vision of TOC was a distillation of possible forms of transnational organized crime; a construction which.“This book is an outstanding exploration of the complexities and contradictions of women, gender justice, and feminist organizing in the global South—and of the ways in which these initiatives and campaigns enter the discourse of ‘transnational feminism.’”.Transnational Organized Crime is a timely and comprehensive collection of the most important and interesting papers in this field.

It includes both well-known studies and little-read gems. The Collection comes with thought-provoking Introductions to each volume by the editor, James : Hardcover.