The ninth Accounting History International Conference,“Accounting and governance in diverse settings”

Verona, Italy 6-8 September, 2017

Hosted by: Department of Business Administration, University of Verona, Italy and Supported by: Accounting History Special Interest Group of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand

While papers will be accepted across the full range of accounting history topics and methodological and theoretical perspectives, authors are encouraged to address topics relevant to the conference theme: “Accounting and governance in diverse settings”. This involves studying accounting and governance in private, public and not-for-profit contexts, including charitable bodies, mutual societies, professional bodies and family businesses. Investigations may include, but are not limited to, historical studies of:

The interrelations between accounting and governance in diverse settings;

Comparative international accounting and governance;

Accounting as a social practice in enabling or inhibiting governance;

Accounting regulation and governance, including the development of regulatory frameworks, codes and guidelines;

Adaptations of accounting and corporate governance in family and long-lived businesses;

Differences and similarities of governance regimes in an array of different institutions, including arts, entertainment, religious and public sector institutions;

State corporatism and its consequences for accounting and corporate governance in different countries.

Submission and Review of Papers: Papers written in the English language and complying with the Accounting History manuscript style should be submitted in Word format no later than 1 March 2017 to verona.ahic@rmit.edu.au. All papers will be subject to a double-blind refereeing process and will be published on the conference website as refereed conference proceedings, unless otherwise advised. A special issue of the journal on the conference theme is scheduled to be published following the event.

An Emerging Scholars’ Colloquium will be held immediately prior to the conference.

Conference information will be added progressively to the conference website: http://www.univr.it/9ahic

Inquiries may be directed to the Conference Convener, Alessandro Lai, Department of Business Administration, University of Verona, at the following e-mail address: alessandro.lai@univr.it

The historic Roman city of Verona was founded in the first century B.C. It particularly flourished under the rule of the Scaliger family in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and as part of the Republic of Venice from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Verona has preserved a remarkable number of monuments from antiquity, the medieval and Renaissance periods, and represents an outstanding example of a military stronghold. The city’s main emblems are the Arena and William Shakespeare’s story of Romeo and Juliet. The Arena is an ancient Roman amphitheatre built in AD 30 and very popular worldwide for its opera festival.

Further information about visiting Verona can be found at: http://www.turismoverona.eu/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=35298&lang=en; http://www.tourism.verona.it/en#