Hegemonic Influence and Selectivity in Financial Accountability Discharge:: Evidence from Ghana’s Oil and Gas Sector

Emmanuel Asare; Bruce Burton; Theresa Dunne

doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2024.102762

Hegemonic Influence and Selectivity in Financial Accountability Discharge: Evidence from Ghana’s Oil and Gas Sector

Emmanuel Asare
, Bruce Burton (Lead / Corresponding author)
, Theresa Dunne

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Abstract

This paper compares the extent of engagement between the Ghanaian government and the nation’s oil and gas firms with the nature of the financial accountability offered by each of these parties to the citizenry. The findings indicate that whilst the Ghanaian government and the nation’s oil firms pay (at best) cursory regard to societal needs for information and engagement, when interacting with each other an effective and unapologetic form of discharge exists, suggesting the existence of an exclusionary hegemony. We mobilize elements of work by Jessop (2003a and 2003b), Joseph (2002 and 2003) and Andrew and Baker (2020) to contextualise the evidence around recent theoretical debates on selectivity in information flows and accountability discharge in developing nation settings.

Original language	English
Article number	102762
Journal	Critical Perspectives on Accounting
Volume	100
Early online date	8 Aug 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2024.102762
Publication status	Published - Dec 2024

Keywords

Ghana
Financial Accountability
Oil and Gas
Natural Resources
Hegemony

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Accounting
Finance
Sociology and Political Science
Information Systems and Management

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