TY - BOOK AU - Mattessich,Richard TI - Reality and accounting: ontological explorations in the economic and social sciences T2 - Routledge new works in accounting history SN - 9780203798737 (e-book : PDF) PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Accounting KW - System theory KW - Electronic books KW - lcsh N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 1. Introduction : scope of the book and survey of subsequent chapters -- 2. Further reflections on ontology -- 3. Bhaskar's transcendentalism and related philosophies -- 4. Social reality : its manifestation in accounting and management -- 5. Accounting representation and Baudrillard's orders of simulacra and his hyperreality -- 6. FASB and social reality : an alternate realist view -- 7. Accounting and John Searle's social ontology -- 8. Aspects of Mario Bunge's ontology : a comparison (with the views of John Searle and others) -- 9. Propositions to an extension of the onion model of reality -- 10. Heterodox economics and ontology -- 11. Ontology of systems science, and thoughts on quantum reality as well as chaos theory; Also available in print edition UR - http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203798737 ER -