Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal: Volume 22 Issue 7

Religious “spirit” and peoples' perceptions of accountability in Hindu and Buddhist religious organizations

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the Buddhist and Hindu people in non‐Western societies perceive rational accountability practices in religious organizations, through…

Ensuring legitimacy through rhetorical changes?: A longitudinal interpretation of the environmental disclosures of a leading Finnish chemical company

The purpose of this paper is to shed further light on how corporate environmental disclosures are used to respond to institutional pressures stemming from the social context.

Construction and effects of markets in a local authority in New Zealand

The purpose of this paper is to make intelligible the rationalities and mechanisms through which markets have been proffered as alternatives or complements to traditional…

Ethical climate, organizational‐professional conflict and organizational commitment: A study of Chinese auditors

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the effects of the ethical climate in Chinese certified public accounting (CPA) firms on auditors' perceptions of…

Photo‐elicitation: an ethno‐historical accounting and management research prospect

The purpose of the paper is to explore the methodological dimensions and potential of photo‐elicitation, particularly as a historical research tool for archival, oral and critical…

Discussion of photo‐elicitation: an ethno‐historical accounting and management research prospect

The purpose of this paper is to critically evaluate Professor Lee D. Parker's call for the use of photo‐elicitation (P‐E) in qualitative accounting and management research…

Performance, emotion and photographic histories: A commentary on Professor Lee D. Parker's paper

The purpose of this paper is to provide a commentary on Professor Lee D. Parker's article on photo‐elicitation.

Value in exchange

The purpose of this paper is to comment on the apparent conflict between the practice of treating people as commodities on the one hand, and recognising their personal uniqueness…

A bird in the hand

The purpose of this paper is to warn against organisations failing to value their intellectual capital in pursuit of elusive outside human resources.

On leaving a job

The purpose of this paper is to celebrate the sense of opportunity arising from realising that one is not trapped in a toxic job.

No‐one now is at my desk

The purpose of this paper is to raise the issue of transition problems in organisations when employees are taken for granted.

Such Sweet Sorrow

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