Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate and evaluate the roles of research journal editorial boards in fostering scholarship and nurturing new knowledge areas and research approaches, typified by the growing qualitative methodological tradition, in the accounting and management...

Purpose – The paper establishes that Edward Caird developed a distinctive form of liberal Hegelianism out of his critical responses to Kant, the romantic tradition of Rousseau, Goethe and Wordsworth and indeed Hegel himself. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a philosophical...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to examine the composition of the editorial boards of 60 academic accounting journals with a particular focus on the university affiliations of editorial board members. The role of ad hoc reviewers is then analysed. Design/methodology/approach – A...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the “impact” of three leading international auditing journals via citation analysis. Design/methodology/approach – A Google Scholar citation analysis was conducted for the period 2001-2006 for Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Managerial...

Purpose – Using Bonner's model, this paper aims to examine the effects of skill level and the two task complexity dimensions – clarity and quantity of information – on subjects' internal control risk assessments. Design/methodology/approach – The research expands the literature by...

Purpose – The paper has a dual purpose, being to report on an interrogation of concepts and contexts of accountability used in the accounting literature and to illustrate the application of a qualitative data analysis software tool in this interrogation. Design/methodology/approach – A...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a structured overview of literature in the nexus of trust and accounting. This can serve as a basis for future research, and thus provide a framework for asking more precise and focused research questions. Design/methodology/approach – All...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the accounting education manuscripts published in the Asian Review of Accounting from 1992 to 2007. Design/methodology/approach – Content and citation analyse techniques have been used to examine authorship, affiliation, educational themes...