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Disability and the professional accountant: insights from oral histories

Duff, Angus; Ferguson, John - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 25 (2012) January, pp. 71-101

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the intersection of disability and accounting employment. Design … support. Originality/value – The paper develops the limited research on the relationship between disability and the accounting …

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Writing masters and accountants in England: A study of occupation, status and ambition in the early modern period

Edwards, John R.; Anderson, Malcolm - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 24 (2011) August, pp. 685-717

eighteenth centuries, and to enhance that identity by behaving in a manner designed to persuade the public of the professionalism … accounting treatises and secondary sources drawn from beyond the accounting literature. Notions of identity, credentialism and … emphasis on personal identity, the neglect of group identity and derogation of the writing craft were most important. Research …

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Weaving a web of control: “The Promise of Opportunity” and work-life balance in multinational accounting firms

Ladva, Puja; Andrew, Jane - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 27 (2014), pp. 634-654

to secure their identity. This is particularly apparent when they speak of their career. Research limitations … large multinational accounting firms because they work through the emergent identity of young professionals. Originality …

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

Haynes, Kathryn - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 26 (2013) April, pp. 374-398

Purpose – 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 of gendering identities of employees within the firm. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a...

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Re-framing strategy: power, politics and accounting

Carter, Chris; Clegg, Stewart; Kornberger, Martin - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 23 (2010) June, pp. 573-594

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse the rise and institutionalization of the discourse of strategic management. It seeks to advance an agenda for studying strategy from a sociologically informed perspective. Moreover, it aims to make a case for a critically informed, interdisciplinary...

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Strategy, enrolment and accounting: the politics of strategic ideas

Whittle, Andrea; Mueller, Frank - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 23 (2010) June, pp. 626-646

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use Actor Network Theory to explore the role of management accounting systems (MAS) in the construction of business strategy. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on findings from an ethnographic study of a UK-based firm. Theoretical...

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Congestion charging: a tale of two cities

Lapsley, Irvine; Giordano, Filippo - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 23 (2010) June, pp. 671-698

power relationships in political organisations, it seeks to study the manner in which accounting and politics are involved …

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Climate change: Explaining and solving the mismatch between scientific urgency and political inertia

Boston, Jonathan; Lempp, Frieder - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 24 (2011) October, pp. 1000-1021

Purpose – This paper has two main purposes. First, it considers the detrimental effects of four politically-salient asymmetries on the policy choices of liberal democracies when dealing with the problem of human-induced climate change. Second, it outlines and evaluates possible solutions for...

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Stakeholder responses to the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act: An agenda setting perspective

Lodhia, Sumit; Martin, Nigel - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 25 (2012) January, pp. 126-145

Purpose – This paper aimed to explore the submissions made to the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) policy paper by corporations and other stakeholders. It also sought to establish whether broader climate change issues were addressed in the context of the submissions....

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