Purpose – The paper seeks to explore the ongoing development of an array of interdisciplinary specialist research areas in the accounting research community and its literature. It sets out to explore developments over the last 25 years with the aim to identify a number of important trends for...

Purpose – A satire on conference paper presentations. Design/methodology/approach – A poetic critique of conference presenters and their occasional failure to engage with their audience. Findings – What may be fascinating and of assumed and obvious importance to a research presenter may be...

This study explores academic activities with particular reference to research in the accounting and management disciplines. It explores emerging social constructions of the role of research in academic work and the concept of what is deemed to constitute “quality” research. To this end it...