Saliya, CA and Jayasinghe, K (2016) 'Creating and reinforcing discrimination: The controversial role of accounting in bank lending.' Accounting Forum, 40 (4). pp. 235-250. ISSN 0155-9982

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Abstract

This paper examines the controversial role played by accounting within the discriminatory bank-lending practices of a privately owned bank in Sri Lanka. It reports on an analytical auto-ethnography (during the period 1994?2004) coupled with follow-up interviews and reiterated analyses. Data were analysed using Pierre Bourdieu?s concepts of field, capital, habitus and symbolic violence. The empirical findings of the paper illustrate how key capitals at macro levels (social, cultural and symbolic) are mobilised in the dominance structures within the banking lending field and how individuals with given habitus behave and follow given strategies to deploy rational accounting systems at a micro level to translate discriminatory bank lending policies into practice and, as a result, create and reinforce discrimination.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Accounting and discrimination; Bank lending; Bourdieu; Capital; Habitus; Symbolic violence; Domination; Sri Lanka
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5601 Accounting
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School > Essex Accounting Centre
SWORD Depositor:	Elements
Depositing User:	Elements
Date Deposited:	06 Dec 2016 19:26
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2022 13:16
URI:	http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/18321

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