- Title
- Accountants and the info-wars of the late 20th century
- Creator
- Radford, Jack; Hettihewa, Samanthala; Wright, Christopher
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/42823
- Identifier
- vital:5171
- Abstract
- This paper draws attention to a commercial struggle that, after simmering over many centuries, has in recent decades progressively intensified into an all-out competitive brawl. The rising intensity in this conflict is evidenced by firms having to divert an ever-larger share of budgets and management resources avoid being overwhelmed by information. Even though few accountants and managers are aware of the nature, extent, or even history of this struggle, it increasingly constrains and defines their jobs. In this conflict, the few firms that think they have won, sooner or later, find their victory to be a pyrrhic, temporary delusion- as they are forced back, to re-join the mass of firms that have to do all they can, in struggle to avoid joining the ranks of the dazed, over-whelmed, information losers. After reviewing the roots, nature, and history of this intensifying struggle, this paper extrapolates from extant strategies (that reduce information toward the know-who/-minimum), to postulate how accountants and other information specialists are likely to prosecute the near to intermediate future of their portion of the ever-escalating information wars.; E1
- Publisher
- Paris, France Asian Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues
- Relation
- Asia Pacific Conference Proceedings
- Rights
- Copyright Asia Pacific Conference
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Information overload; Discontinuity; Knowledge, Competitive advantage; Know-what
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