Special issue on a Pacific Odyssey

Citation

(2008), "Special issue on a Pacific Odyssey", Pacific Accounting Review, Vol. 20 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/par.2008.34220caa.006

Special issue on a Pacific Odyssey

Article Type: Call for papers From: Pacific Accounting Review, Volume 20, Issue 3

Guest Editors:Professor Michael Gaffikin, University of WollongongDr Keith Dixon, Te Whare Wãnanga o Waitaha

Pacific Accounting Review (PAR) is in its 20th year as an international refereed journal. PAR publishes high quality articles addressed to students, scholars, researchers, specialist practitioners and those affected by accounting and financial practices. Its contents are crafted from humanist, functionalist, and interpretivist perspectives, whether radical or conservative (although there is nothing stopping Pacific scholars from going outside this North Atlantic box); and they illuminate a wide variety of issues and topics.

PAR is published as three issues per year, one of which is devoted to a particular theme. This Call for Papers relates to the upcoming theme: The application of finance, accounting, auditing, tax and associated technologies in Pacific contexts, including in their construction of Pacific populations and economies. As this word string is a little long to be a title, something shorter will be used, the present solution being: ``A Pacific Odyssey''.

The populations and economies in question are as widely flung as Alaska and Aotearoa (New Zealand), Guangdong and Guatemala, Indonesia and California, and Tasmania and Tierra del Fuego, not overlooking Nonouti. The issue is expected to include some think pieces by Pacific scholars from outside the accounting, auditing and finance academy(ies). The contents will be published in English. However, papers prepared originally in other Pacific languages and translated into English may retain a summary in their original language.

You are invited to submit a manuscript aligned with this broad theme. The issues it addresses should interest a wide readership, not least those affected by practice or their descendants. The instructions for authors are provided at: www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/ par/notes.jsp or in recent issues of PAR. Criteria for accepting papers will be academic quality, originality and alignment with the theme. Relevance, accessibility and non-triviality of subject matter are other important qualities. After an initial screening, all submissions will be reviewed blindly by two or three academics with expertise in the topic area, context and paradigm.

Please submit your manuscript by 1 March 2009.

E-mail it to keith.dixon@canterbury.ac.nz, or post it to Keith Dixon, Department of Accountancy and Information Systems, Te Whare Wãnanga o Waitaha, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.