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Organization: Oxford Brookes University - Accounting, Governance and Information Management

Location: Oxford, UK

Field: Economics

Requirements:

Applicants should have a good Honours degree and in addition a good Master's degree at merit level and above that includes a thesis component.

Abstract:

The full-time studentship, which includes an element for teaching will be for 3 years, subject to satisfactory progress. Starting bursary will be £20,000 pa plus student fees.

Description:

Business models of economic activity have traditionally divided organisations into those whose purpose is profit and those whose purpose is other than profit. Over the past two decades, in the U.K. and internationally, there has been a blurring of these boundaries with the development of new models of organisations acting for profit and for purpose.  These new hybrid organisations pose questions for the accounting and governance frameworks that have been established to accommodate the traditional models. These questions are both practical and theoretical.
Practical questions could include -  How can organisations account both for purpose and profit effectively? How can they reconcile the open tendencies of shared purposes between several organisations with the closed tendencies of separate legal and financial identities?  Are there lessons for the more traditional models from some of the practices now developing in these hybrid organisations?
Theoretical questions could include - Are the hybrid networks demonstrating shared purpose and values replacing the idea of corporate social responsibility with something culturally much deeper? Is the idea of civic responsibility as central to the purpose of the commercial company an approach at odds with the current methods of regulating markets?  If so, what are the implications for current accounting and governance frameworks?
Contact for informal inquiries and further information about the project: Professor Laura Spira lfspira@brookes.ac.uk
 
For details regarding how to apply please download the application form and additional information from http://www.business.brookes.ac.uk/research/degrees/studentships/
Completed applications forms should be sent directly to: Chris Spurgeon, Research and Doctoral Programmes Administrator, Oxford Brookes University, Business School, Wheatley Campus, Wheatley, OX33 1HX or email cspurgeon@brookes.ac.uk

Deadline: 15-04-2011

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