The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification

by Michael Power

Book Overview

Since the early 1980s there has been an explosion of auditing activity in the United Kingdom and North America. Why has this happened? This book is the first systematic exploration of "audit" as a principle of social organization and control. The author critically examines the reasons, means, and consequences of this audit explosion. He raises important questions about the efficacy of audit processes and suggests that the consequences of this must...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198289472
• ISBN13: 9780198289470
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"