Announcing New ARN History of Accounting Abstracting eJournal
We are pleased to announce a new Accounting Research Network (ARN) Subject Matter eJournal -- History of Accounting.
HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING
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Editor: Victor Ricciardi, Social Science Research Network
Description:
The History of Accounting abstracting eJournal distributes working papers and accepted paper abstracts covering all aspects of the historical nature of accounting. This eJournal promotes communication among academics and practitioners interested in various elements of the history of accounting thought. The objective of this eJournal is to document the historical background of the discipline, identify recent problems, and discover unresolved research questions in accounting.
This eJournal welcomes research with a focus on accounting history; different schools of the discipline (modern accounting, behavioral accounting); the origins of accounting; historical events and time periods; essays on historians, founders, and prolific authors in accounting; contributions and biographies of accounting researchers and innovators; the history of college and university accounting programs; accounting in ancient and medieval times; the history of record keeping and bookkeeping; the history of accounting across different decades and centuries; the evolution of accounting systems; accounting history across different cultures, countries, and civilizations; the history of different accounting services and products; papers on the role and influence of diverse disciplines within the historical development of accounting; papers that advance the historical knowledge of the interaction of accounting with other disciplines such as economics, finance, and psychology; in-depth coverage of past, present, and future subject matter in accounting; the historical theory of accounting; surveys and reviews of the academic literature; seminal research papers in the discipline; ideas for future research endeavors (emerging issues) in different branches of accounting unexplored in the academic literature; debates and criticisms of different topics; extensive conceptual papers on accounting subject matter (concepts, themes, and theories); the history of specific academic journals; and papers on historical citation patterns and research productivity (contributions) in accounting.
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SSRN's eLIBRARY
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Searching on an individual's name in the author field on our search page at http://papers.ssrn.com provides the best single professional directory of scholars in accounting, economics, finance, law, and management. Complete contact information for authors, including email, postal, telephone, and fax information, is available there.
SSRN's DOWNLOAD POLICY
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SSRN's MISSION
SSRN's objective is to provide rapid, worldwide distribution of research to authors and their readers and to facilitate communication among them at the lowest possible cost. In pursuit of this objective, we allow authors to upload papers without charge. And, any paper an author uploads to SSRN is downloadable for free, worldwide.
OTHER ACCOUNTING RESEARCH NETWORK JOURNALS
The Accounting Research Network (ARN) also publishes other subject matter abstracting eJournals. You can subscribe to these eJournals through the SSRN User HeadQuarters at http://hq.ssrn.com.
Sincerely,
Ross Watts
Director
Accounting Research Network
Posted 10/17/08
