... at: prems@essex.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Internet Online operations Social problems Pensions Democracy Generation and dissemination of information It is now commonly accepted that advances in information technologies in general, and in the internet...

... Online operations We would like to thank Prem Sikka for his reflections about the role of the internet in promoting more emancipatory accountings. We are also grateful for the opportunity to reply, thereby extending the opportunity for discussion of matters that have profound implications for all...

...). Mouck's views on this point are illustrated in the following quotation: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Economic performance Financial reporting Internet Online operations Accounting procedures Epistemology Many companies whose business models are based on increased use...

... of counter accounting groups constitutes a serious issue [2] . Online operations Internet Worldwide web Accounting information Research The rise of the web [1] as a source of information and as a communicative medium is widely acknowledged as a key phenomenon of our times. It is a visible...

... ; Calabrese and Borchert, 1996 ; cf. Baudrillard, 1983 ; Smart, 1992) [13] . The net's content is US dominated and largely disseminated throughout the world's metropolitan centres: if this has positive potential it is also a selective, imperial and colonial globalism (Castells, 2001). Online operations...

... and online reporting in facilitating emancipatory accounting. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Internet Online operations Accounting Postmodernism Sikka (2006) argues that the internet is just another technology and its use and influence depends upon the context in which...