The changing organization of Czech accounting

The paper draws on the organizational change literature in order to provide a theoretical framework for the post-Velvet Revolution changes in Czech accounting. The former system is modelled as an amalgam of interpretive schemes, design archetypes and subsystems. The former system is seen as coherent except in the area of audit. The points of change are economic and political disturbances which result in legal and institutional changes in accounting and auditing. In terms of the theory, these are the design archetypes of the new organization of accounting. Identifying ambiguities and contradictions, we argue that the new organization is on an unresolved excursion towards a new model. We also argue that although the change is of a second-order nature, it has been carried out with relatively little public discussion or participation.