Sur le papier, les membres des entités auditées semblent ne pas pouvoir faire obstacle à la mission des commissaires aux comptes : tout est mis en oeuvre pour les transformer en dociles fournisseurs d'informations. Mais qu'en est-il donc en pratique ? Peu de recherches se sont penchées sur...

Using change theory integrated with Bourdieusian sociology, we re‐theorize a major institutional shift in the field of public accounting. The case we examine involves the consolidation of commercial values in the auditing profession. In reinterpreting this shift, we highlight an institutional...

Field research is increasingly being employed by audit researchers around the world including in North America. However, given that many doctoral programs, especially in North America, devote little or no time to this method, understanding what constitutes good auditing field research is...

Drawing on qualitative field studies, this literature review synthesizes research on the formation of professional identities, from the pre-exposure phase of recruitment, up the hierarchy to staff-, manager- and partner-level work at auditing firms, to the level of those who leave professional...

This study revisits the actions of the French audit regulator (H3C) and the French profession over the 2003-2013 period in response to the regulatory transformations that occurred both in the national and transnational space. Our analysis highlights how these actors have navigated through the...

This paper explores auditors’ responses to unexpected, systematic changes in circumstances. We use the COVID-19 outbreak, a “critical incident” that disrupted all year-end audits in China, to understand this underexplored research area. Based on 24 semi-structured interviews, we first...