While prior accounting research documents normalizing strategies within the accounting profession and in instances of accounting adoption, the potential of accounting itself as a strategic tool toward normalizing that which is considered socially abnormal (i.e., dirty) remains an important and...

We examine accounting's role in the development of the cannabis industry within the U.S., where formal accounting has historically been strongly discouraged. Employing an inductive approach, we conduct in-depth interviews to examine the current landscape of the cannabis industry and the ways in...

Purpose: Motivated by upper echelon theory, this paper aims to examine the association between gender and the cannabis industry in the USA from both policy and an organizational perspective. Design/methodology/approach: This paper examines two novel data sets in two legal adult-use cannabis...