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Competing logics and institutionalization of cost calculation in pluralistic organizations. The role of affordances
Elodie Allain, Samuel Sponem, Frederic MunckFor many years, universities have been confronted with the rise of a managerial logic, in line with the new public management movement. They have been encouraged to implement new…
A failure of accountancy professionalisation: corporate financial reporting and accounting knowledge
Thomas A. LeeThe purpose of this study is to analyse historical events to argue the improbable prospect of radical accounting reform in corporate financial reporting (CFR) due to the absence…
Making things (that don’t exist) count: a study of Scope 4 emissions accounting claims
Anna Young-Ferris, Arunima Malik, Victoria Calderbank, Jubin Jacob-JohnAvoided emissions refer to greenhouse gas emission reductions that are a result of using a product or are emission removals due to a decision or an action. Although there is no…
The value of research activities “other than” publishing articles: reflections on an experimental workshop series
Yasmine Chahed, Robert Charnock, Sabina Du Rietz Dahlström, Niels Joseph Lennon, Tommaso Palermo, Cristiana Parisi, Dane Pflueger, Andreas Sundström, Dorothy Toh, Lichen YuThe purpose of this essay is to explore the opportunities and challenges that early-career researchers (ECRs) face when they seek to contribute to academic knowledge production…
Breaking the institutional logic or going under - Controllers and sustainability
Jennifer Kunz, Johanna Oltmann, Felix WeinhartThe present paper aims to focus on the role which German controllers play so far in the process of sustainable transformation in for-profit organizations, the current obstacles to…
How sustainability assurance work gets done: assurors’ sensemaking, socialization and interactions with clients
Lies Bouten, Sophie HoozéeThis study examines how assurors make sense of sustainability assurance (SA) work and how interactions with assurance team members and clients shape assurors’ sensemaking and…
Hegemony, global capitalism and the role of diplomacy in extractive industries
Jane Andrew, Max BakerThis study explores a hegemonic alliance and the role of relational forms of accounting and accountablity in the making of contemporary capitalism.
Blending logics with performance management systems in an NGO setting
Paul J. Thambar, Aldónio Ferreira, Prabanga ThoradeniyaThis study aims to examine the role of performance management systems (PMSs) in enabling logic blending to manage institutional complexity and tensions arising from coexisting…
A well-rounded life: the story of Eva West – pioneer accountant, philanthropist and environmentalist
Abdel K. HalabiThis paper presents the biography of one of Australia’s earliest female accountants, Miss Evelyn Maude West (aka Eva). The paper uses this history sub-genre to understand the…
Make China great again: the strategies of Confucian accountants
Yuheng Wang, Paul D. AhnThis paper aims to offer insight into how strategies within the accounting profession, which has been becoming more global, might be changed by the recent outbreak of the Second…
Material flow cost accounting in Vietnam: a multi-level exploration
Thuy Thanh Tran, Roger Leonard Burritt, Christian Herzig, Katherine Leanne ChristOf critical concern to the world is the need to reduce consumption and waste of natural resources. This study provides a multi-level exploration of the ways situational and…
Constructing an accountability regime for proxy advisors: an organizational roles perspective
Damien Lambert, Leona WiegmannThis study investigates how the interrelated elements of organizational roles – activities, motives, resources and relationships – are mobilized to construct a code of conduct for…
Reconceptualizing accountability in NGO-corporate partnerships: an institutional logics perspective
Chaudhry Ghafran, Sofia YasminDeveloping economies often lack sufficient state regulation to encourage corporations to engage with environmental sustainability challenges. Environmental NGOs fill this vacuum…
Reshaping an issue-based field: assessing the impact of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) on the global development aid agenda
Christopher Humphrey, Perla Mardini, Brendan O'DwyerThe paper studies how the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) positioned itself in the process through which capacity building in developing countries was interpreted…
Methodological Insights: This is not an experiment: using vignettes in qualitative accounting research
Leona Wiegmann, Annemarie Conrath-Hargreaves, Zhengqi Guo, Matthew Hall, Ralph Kober, Richard Pucci, Paul J. Thambar, Tirukumar ThiagarajahThe use of interviews for data collection is prevalent in qualitative accounting research. This paper examines vignettes – sketches of hypothetical scenarios – as a promising…

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