Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to present a critique of published research access and peer review, considering their impacts on accounting scholarship. Design/methodology/approach -The paper is based on literature and publishing document review, experiential reflections and argument....

<title>Abstract</title> This article provides a critique of the Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) guidelines, sustainability reporting (SR) guidelines and also examines their applicability to public and third sector organizations. The article finds that these guidelines promote a ‘managerialist’ approach...

Purpose – The first aim of this paper is to present the methods developed by one of the co-authors to render visible the complexity of intellectual capital (IC). These were developed to make relationships between IC elements and value creation accessible to managers seeking to act on IC. The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a reflective discourse about a particular interventionist research project utilising a critical framework. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses Alvesson and Deetz's tasks of critical research to analyse the application of...

Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to offer the reflections and critique not only on the current state of the art for intellectual capital research (ICR) from an interdisciplinary accounting research (IAR) perspective, but also its future directions. Design/methodology/approach -This paper...

Purpose – Despite the growing pressure to encourage new ways of thinking about research methodology, only recently have interview methodologists begun to realize that “we cannot lift the results of interviewing out of the contexts in which they were gathered and claim them as objective data...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the construction of articles published in three highly ranked interdisciplinary accounting journals. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis is based on articles published during 2010 in Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal...

This paper presents a challenge to public sector managers, policy-makers and interested academics. Drawing on the findings of previous international comparative studies of new public financial management (NPFM) reforms, it concludes that public services and their providers are caught in an...

By weaving together the fields of health economics, industrial organisation and industrial development, this book describes the benefits of promoting a country’s health industry as a way of stimulating its high-technology industrial capacity. The authors illustrate that the development of...