[3] Hopwood founded the journal Accounting, Organizations and Society in 1976, serving as its editor-in-chief until his retirement in 2009.
[1] Hopwood's doctoral research drew on social psychology and the sociology of group dynamics to study accounting in the context of a steel mill in Gary, Indiana.
His research showed that apparently technical processes, such as the setting of budgets, were complex behavioral phenomenon.
[1] Throughout his career, Hopwood consistently focused on the political processes and psychological factors behind accounting.
He argued that accounting is not a neutral technical phenomenon, but an intensely social process that impacts society in many ways.