Accountability and Transparency in the Modern Anthropocene

The book is about accountability processes and how they contribute solutions to our current environmental and global political problems. This book is different to other literature in this field. This is so because the dominant accountability discourse is shaped by what is defined as a neoliberal business case for social and environmental reform.

This book assumes a nirvana stance within globalisation where all citizens operate within the parameters of the free market and will recover from adverse economic and political damage. Further this book uses neoliberalism and free-market reforms aims as examples to implement efficient management technologies and create more competitive pressures.

Central to the argument of the book are perspectives on authenticity, expressivism and interpretivism which are found to provide a radical reworking of our understanding of being in the world. These frameworks offer a starting point for rethinking the way individuals, businesses and communities ought to be dealing politically with accountability and ecological crises. The argument builds to an accountability perspective that utilises work from expressivism, interpretivism, classical liberalism and postmodern theory. The theoretical quest undertaken in this book is to develop connections between accountability, democratic, ethical and ecological perspectives.

​Associate Professor Glen Lehman is Senior Research Fellow: Accounting at the University of South Australia Business School, where he teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses and conducts research in the fields of accounting, philosophy and social theory. Professor Lehman is also a member of the Centre for Applied Financial Studies (CAFS) which merges financial theory and practice by bringing together academics and industry experts to facilitate international research collaborations in Finance.Professor Lehman completed a PhD in ecological political theory at Flinders University, where he also attained degrees in economics, accounting and political science, and an MBA at the University of South Australia. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the internationally influential interdisciplinary research journal Accounting Forum from 1994 - 2018. He has served on more than ten journal editorial boards internationally providing his experience and knowledge. Professor Lehman has published scholarly articles in a range of prestigious journals, is a member of the British, the American and the Australian Accounting Associations, and has been a visiting researcher in Australia and the United Kingdom.