Reality and accounting : ontological explorations in the economic and social sciences /
Mattessich, Richard,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface 1. introduction: scope of the book and survey of subsequent chapters -- Further reflections on ontology -- Bhaskar's transcendentalism and related philosophies -- Social reality : its manifestation in accounting and management -- FASB and social reality : an alternate realist view -- Accounting and John Searle's social ontology -- Aspects of Mario Bunge's ontology : a comparison (with the views of John Searle and others) -- Propositions to an extension of the onion model of reality -- Heterodox economics and ontology -- Ontology of systems science, and thoughts on quantum reality as well as chaos theory.
Accounting.
System theory.