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....

Purpose – Accounting researchers have frequently borrowed theories and methods from other disciplines. A noteworthy importation movement in recent decades involves the work of French intellectuals and philosophers, not least Pierre Bourdieu. This paper aims to contribute to the sociology of...

Purpose – Drawing on Bourdieu’s (2001) concept of symbolic violence in his work on Masculine Domination, the purpose of this paper is to examine how perceptions of legitimacy surrounding the presence of female directors are constructed in the boardroom, and the role of symbolic violence in...