About the Journal

 

About

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The overarching philosophy of Interdisciplinary Accounting Review, is to attract, promote and disseminate high quality, ethical, academic accounting research as widely as possible. Provided that the research meets the minimum threshold of being interdisciplinary and accounting, the journal welcomes pieces that are concerned with the creation of a fairer, more sustainable, and democratized world.

IAR is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal. All content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence, unless otherwise stated. There are no fees to access or publish in the journal.

 

Aims & Scope

Interdisciplinary Accounting Review was set up to provide an outlet for high quality academic research which is freely available to interested readers across the world.

We welcome interdisciplinary work from all parts of the world recognizing that there a large proportion of our planet is underrepresented in the accounting literature. Further, we encourage submissions from work at the intersections of accounting and, law, philosophy, science, the humanities or any other discipline.

Alongside theoretically-informed interdisciplinary studies of accounting phenomena, the editorial team will gladly consider thought pieces, methodological insights, literature reviews, drama, and also visual media. 

Research Areas

IAR does not wish to dictate what is and is not accounting.  We value a broad understanding of accounting.  Any and all research that takes an interdisciplinary approach, including critical inquiry, reflectiveness, scientific, societal, and political relevance, to the study of accounting is welcome.  Methodologically, all types of studies are encouraged to be submitted, ranging from conceptual thought-pieces to numerous kinds of qualitative and quantitative empirically grounded works. 

Overall, IAR would like to see interdisciplinary work that considers accounting's role(s) in creating, or hampering the creation of a more just, democratized and sustainable world.

The following are intended to be indicative of the types of arenas IAR is interested in:

  • Studies involving the political economy of accounting, critical accounting, radical accounting, and accounting's implication in the exercise of power
  • Studies concerned with social justice, equity, environmental sustainability, climate change
  • Accounting’s roles in war, conflict and strife; corporate and other governance; international capital formation; the labour process and in the workplace; democracy; global south indebtedness; human rights; child labour; modern slavery; indigenous issues; social justice; critical accounting education; inequality and decoloniality.
  • Studies related to the accounting profession; accounting history; auditing and taxation
  • Studies on accounting, race, gender, diversity, equity and inclusion, including 2SLGBTQI+.
  • Interdisciplinary perspectives on capital markets, including the work performed in stock valuation, financial analysts, earnings events, and so forth.
  • Interdisciplinary or critical studies on the interaction between accounting and artificial intelligence
  • Interdisciplinary or critical studies on all aspects of sustainability, including ecological, social, organizational, as well as the craft of academic scholarship
  • Accounting and AI.
  • Accounting in different contexts and different applications - the Arts, Ecology, Environment, etc.

 

Governance & Ownership

Interdisciplinary Accounting Review is owned and governed by the journal editors. Copyright to papers published within the journal issues are owned by their respective authors under Creative Commons licenses. The journal is published by the University of Edinburgh – a charitable body. Edinburgh Diamond – a service based within the University of Edinburgh Library – acts as the Publishing Partner by providing publishing services.

 

Indexing

IAR is currently seeking indexing arrangements.

 

Policies

Please see the Journal Policy page for information on preservation, copyright, licensing, open access, permissions, and privacy.

 

Publication Frequency

IAR publishes under a rolling publication model, meaning articles are published as soon as they are ready.