Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal: Volume 26 Issue 3

Business research in virtual worlds: possibilities and practicalities

Kim MacKenzie, Sherrena Buckby, Helen Irvine

It is predicted that virtual business and related research possibilities will expand significantly. In this context, the aim of this paper is to use insights from a virtual…

Sexuality and sexual symbolism as processes of gendered identity formation: An autoethnography of an accounting firm

Kathryn Haynes

The aim of this paper is to critically evaluate sexuality and sexual symbolism within the organisational culture of an accounting firm to explore how it is implicated in processes…

Descriptive, instrumental and strategic approaches to corporate social responsibility: Do they drive the financial performance of companies differently?

Giacomo Boesso, Kamalesh Kumar, Giovanna Michelon

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the descriptive, instrumental, and strategic approaches to corporate social responsibility (CSR) are related to corporate…

Accounting ambiguity and structural change

Hans Englund, Jonas Gerdin, Gun Abrahamsson

The purpose of this paper is to present an emergent model showing the change potential inherent in the mirroring of time‐space bound metrics and numbers in management accounting…

Moral accounting? Employee disclosures from a stakeholder accountability perspective

Sarah J. Williams, Carol A. Adams

The purpose of this paper is to examine how disclosure of employee issues by a large UK bank may or may not promote transparency and accountability (as assessed by the…

“The accounting conference”

Sherrena Buckby

The paper's aim is to be a satirical reflection of participant experiences at an accounting conference.

Results sky high: “DAMN”ing marking forever

Claire Lewin

The aim of this paper is to stimulate further discussion on divergent institutional and academic needs for effective marking processes to evaluate student work in Australian…

Are you paying attention?

Steve Evans