On Dialectics and Human Decency: Education in the Dock

Set against the backdrop of the contemporary crisis of capitalism and world-historical events, this article examines the advance of globalized imperialism from the perspective of a Marxist-humanist approach to pedagogy known as ‘revolutionary critical pedagogy’ enriched by liberation theology. It is written as an epistolic manifesto to the transnational capitalist class, demanding that those who willingly serve its interests reconsider their allegiance and calling for a planetary revolution in the way that we both think about capitalism and how education and religion serves to reproduce it at the peril of both students and humanity as a whole

CSR after Enron: A Role for the academic accounting profession?

Abstract Post-Enron, there has been a particularly dramatic increase in the production of substantial corporate social responsibility and sustainability reports. Significantly, issues of reputation, risk management and competitive advantage, rather than the discharge of accountability, appear to be the driving forces behind such a phenomenon. This paper discusses the contribution academic accounting, within both research and teaching realms, can make towards addressing this perceived imbalance. Drawing upon a review of recent literature, attention is drawn to the potential for pursuing a strategy of critical engagement. In the research domain, this entails academics being prepared to extend their scholarship from a generally prevailing managerialist perspective to the point where less comfortable areas of real conflict lie. Equally important, on the teaching front, there is a pressing need to challenge more robustly the tenets of modern day business, and specifically accounting, education which have elevated the principles of property rights and narrow self-interest above broader values of community and ethics.Corporate social responsibility (CSR), Enron, critical engagement, the ‘business case’ for CSR, CSR and teaching,