Standing on the (skeletal) shoulders of a (middle-range) giant: Acknowledging intellectual debt

► The influence of Richard Laughlin and the Sheffield School on the academic accounting landscape.
► Revisits how systems thinking provides a novel but robust framework within which to conceptualise accounting.
► The importance of Laughlin's model of organisational change.
► Richard Laughlin's role in the social accounting project.
► Questions of activism and/or scholarship and the elusiveness of ideal speech situations.