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Imran Chowdhury - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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civilized dispossession corporate accumulation at the dawn of Modern Capitalism
Organization Studies, 2021Co-Authors: Wim Van Lent, Gazi Islam, Imran ChowdhuryAbstract:Critical scholarship views corporate accumulation – a fundamental driver of Capitalism – as inherently dispossessive, involving violence and expropriation. However, dispossession also involves prac...
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civilized dispossession corporate accumulation at the dawn of Modern Capitalism
Social Science Research Network, 2021Co-Authors: Wim Van Lent, Gazi Islam, Imran ChowdhuryAbstract:Critical scholarship views corporate accumulation – a fundamental driver of Capitalism – as inherently dispossessive, involving violence and expropriation. However, dispossession also involves practices of legitimation that are related to coercive violence in complex ways. We examine the roles of dispossession and legitimation practices as constitutive of corporate accumulation. Specifically, we analyze how dispossession is connected to the appropriation of legitimacy as a symbolic resource which justifies and enables violence and expropriation. Taking an historical perspective, we examine a paradigmatic case of corporate accumulation: the Dutch East India Company’s monopolization of spices on the Banda islands (1599-1621). In this process, the Dutch moved from 1) initial instances of legitimation to 2) legitimation to enforce Dutch-Bandanese agreements, to 3) legitimation to enable dispossession of the Bandanese, to finally 4) wholesale dispossession of the Bandanese. These four phases reflect a mechanism that we call “civilized dispossession”, which describes the escalating three-way interplay between Dutch practices of dispossession and legitimation and Bandanese resistance, and which was driven by institutional experimentation and multi-level institutional work. Integrating institutional and critical perspectives, the notion of “civilized dispossession” provides a novel theorization of corporate accumulation, elucidating the mechanisms by which corporations promote the diffusion of Capitalism.
Rob Bryer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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for marx a critique of jacques richard s the dangerous dynamics of Modern Capitalism from static to ifrs futuristic accounting
Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2015Co-Authors: Rob BryerAbstract:This commentary critically discusses Jacque Richard's thesis that we can explain the development of financial accounting across four major countries over the last 200 or so years, as the consequence of the progressive shortening of time preference for consumption as capital socialised, by contrasting it with the accounting implications of Marx's theory of the transition to Capitalism. It provides a critique of Richard's definition of Capitalism, queries his interpretation of the historical evidence, and questions his diagnosis of the cause and the likely consequences of IFRSs’ ‘futuristic’ malaise. It concludes, nonetheless, that only by conducting such challenging comparative international research will we realise the promise of critical accounting history.
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the roots of Modern Capitalism a marxist accounting history of the origins and consequences of capitalist landlords in england
The Accounting historians journal, 2004Co-Authors: Rob BryerAbstract:A major debate neglected by accounting historians is the importance of landlords in the English agricultural revolution. The paper uses accounting evidence from the historical literature to test Marx's theory that, from around 1750, England's landlords played a pivotal role by adopting and then spreading the capitalist mentality and social relations by enclosures and changes in the management of their estates and tenants. It gives an accounting interpretation of Marx's theory of rent and argues that the available evidence supports his view that the conversion of English landlords to Capitalism underlay the later stages of the agricultural revolution. The conclusion explains the linkages in Marx's theory between the agricultural and industrial revolutions, and calls on accounting historians to conduct archival research into the agricultural roots of Modern Capitalism.
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the history of accounting and the transition to Capitalism in england part one theory
Accounting Organizations and Society, 2000Co-Authors: Rob BryerAbstract:Abstract To appreciate the social significance of accounting today we must study it in changing socio-historical contexts and understand its ideas and techniques as products and producers of history. This paper (Part One) and a subsequent paper (Bryer, The history of accounting and the transition to Capitalism in England. Part two: evidence, in press) argue for a social history of accounting change. In social history no theme has been more important than the meaning of Modernity, and no explanation more debated than Marx's theory of the transition to Capitalism in England. The papers argue that historians of accounting can make a major contribution to this debate. Part One uses accounting ideas to explain Marx's theory. Many believe his theory is ambiguous or relies on teleology or economic determinism. Sociologists often repeat Weber's argument that Marx overlooked the cultural foundations of socio-economic action; the need for a transition to the calculative mentality of Modern Capitalism. Marxist historians dispute whether the primary cause was the rise of trade or class conflict in agriculture. While historical evidence broadly supports the class conflict view, controversy continues. This paper shows that, when translated into accounting ideas, Marx's theory is unambiguous; relies neither on teleology nor economic determinism; is historically testable; includes class conflict in trade and agriculture, and calculative mentalities as necessary and sufficient causes of Capitalism and, we argue, Modern accounting. Part Two provides evidence consistent with Marx's theory from accounting records produced during the English agricultural, commercial, and bourgeois revolutions. It concludes that accounting for the transition to Capitalism should have a high priority on the research agenda of accounting historians.
Gazi Islam - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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civilized dispossession corporate accumulation at the dawn of Modern Capitalism
Organization Studies, 2021Co-Authors: Wim Van Lent, Gazi Islam, Imran ChowdhuryAbstract:Critical scholarship views corporate accumulation – a fundamental driver of Capitalism – as inherently dispossessive, involving violence and expropriation. However, dispossession also involves prac...
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civilized dispossession corporate accumulation at the dawn of Modern Capitalism
Social Science Research Network, 2021Co-Authors: Wim Van Lent, Gazi Islam, Imran ChowdhuryAbstract:Critical scholarship views corporate accumulation – a fundamental driver of Capitalism – as inherently dispossessive, involving violence and expropriation. However, dispossession also involves practices of legitimation that are related to coercive violence in complex ways. We examine the roles of dispossession and legitimation practices as constitutive of corporate accumulation. Specifically, we analyze how dispossession is connected to the appropriation of legitimacy as a symbolic resource which justifies and enables violence and expropriation. Taking an historical perspective, we examine a paradigmatic case of corporate accumulation: the Dutch East India Company’s monopolization of spices on the Banda islands (1599-1621). In this process, the Dutch moved from 1) initial instances of legitimation to 2) legitimation to enforce Dutch-Bandanese agreements, to 3) legitimation to enable dispossession of the Bandanese, to finally 4) wholesale dispossession of the Bandanese. These four phases reflect a mechanism that we call “civilized dispossession”, which describes the escalating three-way interplay between Dutch practices of dispossession and legitimation and Bandanese resistance, and which was driven by institutional experimentation and multi-level institutional work. Integrating institutional and critical perspectives, the notion of “civilized dispossession” provides a novel theorization of corporate accumulation, elucidating the mechanisms by which corporations promote the diffusion of Capitalism.
Wim Van Lent - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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civilized dispossession corporate accumulation at the dawn of Modern Capitalism
Organization Studies, 2021Co-Authors: Wim Van Lent, Gazi Islam, Imran ChowdhuryAbstract:Critical scholarship views corporate accumulation – a fundamental driver of Capitalism – as inherently dispossessive, involving violence and expropriation. However, dispossession also involves prac...
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civilized dispossession corporate accumulation at the dawn of Modern Capitalism
Social Science Research Network, 2021Co-Authors: Wim Van Lent, Gazi Islam, Imran ChowdhuryAbstract:Critical scholarship views corporate accumulation – a fundamental driver of Capitalism – as inherently dispossessive, involving violence and expropriation. However, dispossession also involves practices of legitimation that are related to coercive violence in complex ways. We examine the roles of dispossession and legitimation practices as constitutive of corporate accumulation. Specifically, we analyze how dispossession is connected to the appropriation of legitimacy as a symbolic resource which justifies and enables violence and expropriation. Taking an historical perspective, we examine a paradigmatic case of corporate accumulation: the Dutch East India Company’s monopolization of spices on the Banda islands (1599-1621). In this process, the Dutch moved from 1) initial instances of legitimation to 2) legitimation to enforce Dutch-Bandanese agreements, to 3) legitimation to enable dispossession of the Bandanese, to finally 4) wholesale dispossession of the Bandanese. These four phases reflect a mechanism that we call “civilized dispossession”, which describes the escalating three-way interplay between Dutch practices of dispossession and legitimation and Bandanese resistance, and which was driven by institutional experimentation and multi-level institutional work. Integrating institutional and critical perspectives, the notion of “civilized dispossession” provides a novel theorization of corporate accumulation, elucidating the mechanisms by which corporations promote the diffusion of Capitalism.
Paul M Hohenberg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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early Modern Capitalism economic and social change in europe 1400 1800 edited by maarten prak london routledge 2001 pp xv 236 90 00
The Journal of Economic History, 2002Co-Authors: Paul M HohenbergAbstract:The economy of early Modern Europe has always posed a particular problem for the economic historian trying to grasp the big picture. Four centuries, give or take, separate the medieval from the industrial era—two systems that, rightly or wrongly, appear well defined and even understood. While most early Modern historians find in such themes as absolutism, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and exploration convenient pegs on which to hang their particular story, those for whom the past is above all a story of economic development are not so fortunate. Indeed, one senses in the book under review an almost defensive desire to attract the interest of nonspecialist economic historians: we too have something important to say about the sources of economic growth. However, the swirls and eddies of activity, to say nothing of divergent experiences in smaller and larger regions and limited quantitative data, make it hard to pick out the strand of development that resulted in such clear economic differences between the Europe of Joan of Arc and that of Napoleon. Gutenberg, Newton, Galileo, and Columbus would seem as important, even to economic life, as Adam Smith, James Watt, Francois Quesnay, or Abraham Darby. Why is their influence so hard to trace? Early Modern Capitalism, then, tries to find that elusive thread.