This paper examines the processes by which identity work influences accounting and organisational practices. Analysing ethnographic material, we study how accountants engage in a struggle for recognition in a context where tensions emerge from the confrontation between idealised occupational...

Purpose – This paper aims to better understand why neoliberal governance is so resilient to the crises that frequently affect all or part of the economy. Design/methodology/approach – The argument of this paper relies on a macroanalysis of discourses surrounding the Global Financial Crisis....