Fear, desire, and lack in Deegan and Soltys’s “Social accounting research: An Australasian perspective”


If he loves justice at least, the ‘scholar’ of the future, the ‘intellectual’ of tomorrow should learn it and from the ghost. (Derrida, 1994, p. 176) There are a number of ways to comment on Craig Deegan and Sharon Soltys's paper, the most likely of which is to focus on the authors’ stated objectives and ask whether these were satisfactorily achieved. Thus one might ask if the paper sufficiently made the case, as stated in the introductory section, that there is a disproportionate though highly concentrated number of Australasians (AA) publishing in the social accounting literature (I would answer this with ...