Volume 5 in a series which aims to articulate allegiances underlying accounting practice and research; increase the social self-awareness of accountants; and, encourage them to form new alliances and assume responsibility for the profession's social role.

This seventh volume in the series deals with a variety of topics in the field of advances in public interest accounting.

This sixth volume in the series deals with such topics as managing the organizational environment, the values of accounting and education, segregation in the professions and expectations of professional success in accounting.

Advances in Public Interest Accounting aims to provide a forum for researchers concerned with critically appraising and significantly transforming conventional accounting theory, practice, teaching and research. The series also aims to increase the social self-awareness of accounting practitioners, educators, and researchers, encouraging them to assume a greater responsibility for the profession's social role. Topics addressed include, but are not limited to: Expanding accounting's focus beyond the behaviour of individual corporate entities, encompassing the conflicts of interest within the accounting-regulatory process and effected groups; Exploring alternatives to traditional economics and sociology models, beyond conventional efficiency and profitability measures of corporate performance; Recognizing and examining the influences of gender and feminist theory, class and race, on accounting practice, education, and research Incorporating the significance of accounting as a communicative practice, as social dialogue, and as a social arbiter; Recognizing and examining the effect of accounting practice on environmental issues and on the externalities imposed on local and global communities; Examining accounting's participation in multinational expansion, consolidations, and changing economies undergoing transformations, such as Eastern and Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and the European Community; Addressing the impact of new advances in information technologies.

Paradigms, intellectual insights, and buzzwords have always reflected and informed social practices and have provided impetus and rationalization for macro policies. "Corporate Governance" has become a recent manifestation, creating interplays of political, private, academic, cultural, and economic consequences. This issue of "Advances in Public Interest Accounting" offers provocations challenging the received views of Corporate Governance, illuminating the controversies and ethical outcomes of using it as a prescription for public action. Whether, how, and why Corporate Governance provides innovation, mystification, or creative participation for diverse populations with diverse interests is examined in this issue. With an eclectic group of academics representing a wide range of countries, perspectives, narratives, and themes, Volume 11 provides the space for creating new sensibilities for advocating for the public interest.

Advances in Public Interest Accounting is a research publication with two major aims. First, to provide a forum for researchers concerned with critically appraising and significantly transforming conventional accounting theory, practice, teaching and research. Second, to increase the social self-awareness of accounting practitioners, educators, and researchers, encouraging them to assume a greater responsibility for the profession's social role. We seek original manuscripts exploring all facets of this broad agenda. Illustrative of these aims, authors are concerned with:
-expanding accounting's focus beyond the behavior of individual corporate entities, encompassing the conflicts of interest within the accounting-regulatory process and effected groups;
-exploring alternatives to traditional economic and sociology models, beyond conventional efficiency and profitability measures of corporate performance;
-recognizing and examining the influences of gender and feminist theory, class and race, on accounting practice, education, and research;
-incorporating the significance of accounting as a communicative practice, as social dialogue, and as a social arbiter;
-recognizing and examining the effect of accounting practice on environmental issues and on the externalities imposed on local and global communities;
- examining accounting's participation in multinational expansion, consolidations, and changing economies undergoing transformations, such as Eastern and Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and the European Community;
- addressing the impact of new advances in information technologies.

This eighth volume in the series deals with a variety of topics in the field of advances in public interest accounting.