.../methodology/approach – An examination of religion as social practice is conducted by examining the relationship between formal, printed, sources and the extensive archives of the Church of Scotland. A sample of five administrative units of the church is used to explore local practice in detail. Findings...

...Thomas A. Lee Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the incidence, impact, and consequences of accountant and lawyer bankruptcies in Victorian Scotland. The paper examines these bankruptcies in the context of an emerging profession separating from an established legal profession as part...

...Catriona Paisey; Nicholas J. Paisey Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine financial management in the Pre‐Reformation church in Aberdeen, Scotland during the bishopric of Bishop William Elphinstone (1488‐1514). Design/methodology/approach The paper employs a combination of literature...

... Group Publishing Limited 2010 Cities Accounting Public sector organizations Scotland Corporate governance This special issue presents the case for accountants studying cities. It is based on a collection of papers offered for presentation at a New Public Sector seminar...

... funding regimes and external needs and it suggests a more formal approach to asset management: Michela Arnaboldi can be contacted at: michela.arnaboldi@polimi.it © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Assets management Cities Scotland Public sector orgainzations Case studies...

... Stakeholder analysis Fish farming Social accounting Scotland This paper reports on a case study into interactions between the main participants in Scottish salmon farming and their use of social reports. Our research was influenced by grounded theory (Glaser, 1978, 2004 ; Glaser and Strauss, 1967...

..., Glasgow. Historical documents deposited in the National Library of Scotland were also consulted extensively. The following section introduces the Iona Community. Accounting Religion Christianity Discipline Scotland It was in the first decade of the twentieth century that Max Weber...

... were maintained on a highly selective basis. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the Glasgow and Aberdeen societies began to challenge the Edinburgh dominance and proposed the implementation of new institutional structures, which created eventually a more unified profession in Scotland...