A Bangladesh soap opera: privatisation, accounting, and regimes of control in a less developed country

By Shahzad Uddin, Trevor Hopper. 2001

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Subfields: Accounting, Management Information Systems

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Japanese cost management meets Sri Lankan politics: Disappearance and reappearance of bureaucratic management controls in a privatised utility (2004, background): “A central issue is whether market-based economic reforms, especially privatisation, improve accounting practices in LDCs (Hoque and Hopper, 1997; Uddin and Hopper, 2001).”
Public sector reforms and the public interest: A case study of accounting control changes and performance monitoring in a Ghanaian state‐owned enterprise (2005, background): “have made the management control system ineffective in the state sector in less developed countries, including Ghana ( Uddin and Hopper, 2001”
Management accounting in less developed countries: what is known and needs knowing (2009, background): “For example, the Bangladesh soap company and the jute mills had detailed job classifications; rules on wages, promotions, recruitment, and training; and permanent employment (Uddin and Hopper, 2001).”
A cultural political economy of management accounting controls: A case study of a textile Mill in a traditional Sinhalese village (2005, background): “Most management accounting and control (MAC) research—political economy or otherwise—is in developed countries (exceptions includeHoque and Hopper, 1997; Uddin and Hopper, 2001), so its neglect of development economics and anthropology is unsurprising.”
Public sector management accounting in emerging economies: A literature review (2016, background): “Very few case studies involve ethnographic research, despite its potential for uncovering rich accounts ofMApractices in the public sector (Cunliffe, 2011; Uddin &Hopper, 2001).”
Microfinance: accountability from the grassroots (2006, background): “Hoque and Hopper (1997) and Uddin and Hopper (2001) make similar observations.”
The adoption of international accounting standards in Bangladesh: An exploration of rationale and process (2005, background): “…a signiﬁcant growth in the number of listed companies as well as the volume of trading, a second stock market, the Chittagong Stock Exchange was established in 1995 (Table IV provides additional information on the growth of listed companies from 1992 to 2002) (Uddin and Hopper, 2001, pp. 643-672).”
ACCOUNTING FOR PRIVATISATION IN BANGLADESH: TESTING WORLD BANK CLAIMS (2003, background): “Several studies of Bangladesh SOEs found bureaucratic rule-bound controls were maintained but largely ignored because decisions were politicised (Uddin and Hopper, 2001; Hoque and Hopper, 1994, 1997; Alam, 1990, 1997; Murshed, 1989; Uddin, 1987).”
Dissemination and institutionalization of public sector accounting reforms in less developed countries: A comparative study of the Nepalese and Sri Lankan central governments (2013, background): “…that international organizations have applied various mechanisms, mainly through reports outlining so-called “best practices” and the provision of technical assistance, to push their reform ideas in the developing world (Mir & Rahaman, 2005; Uddin et al., 2011; Uddin & Hopper, 2001, 2003).”
Rationality, traditionalism and the state of corporate governance mechanisms: Illustrations from a less-developed country (2008, background): “While these issues have been debated and researched in Western countries, they remain largely neglected and under-researched in LDCs, especially Bangladesh ( Uddin and Hopper, 2001”