British Accounting Review

Papers
(The median citation count of British Accounting Review is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Determinants and consequences of sales/production report issuance480
The bright side of common ownership: Evidence from bank transparency246
Understanding corporate governance in China99
Does CEO extraversion pay off when in need? Evidence from the global financial crisis55
Actors constructing accountability in hybrid organisations: The case of a Swedish municipal corporation49
Bitcoin under the microscope44
Are key audit matter disclosures useful in assessing the financial distress level of a client firm?44
Does the market value the green credit performance of banks? Evidence from bank loan announcements43
Languages and dividends43
Withdrawal notice to “Rank-and-file employee stock options and audit pricing: Evidence from S&P 1500 firms” [YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101422]42
Carbon accounting for the translation of net-zero targets into business operations42
When stimulus strikes: The predictive power of accruals after government stimulus packages42
How do investors perceive firms’ hiring of local CEOs? Evidence from the cost of equity capital39
Keep a watchful eye on both: The impact of the joint terms of ruling party and government leaders on family firm government subsidies38
Cross-border regulatory cooperation and cash holdings: Evidence from US-listed foreign firms37
The geography of environmental regulation: Plant-level emissions data34
The impact of the UK's Modern Slavery Act (2015) on the disclosure of FTSE 100 companies29
Investor behavior around targeted liquidity announcements29
Is bank diversification a linking channel between regulatory capital and bank value?29
Vertical, horizontal, and self control in academia: Survey evidence on their diverging effects on perceived researcher autonomy and identity28
NGOs’ performance, governance, and accountability in the era of digital transformation27
The role of science-based targets on carbon mitigation: Addressing the tension between net zero anxiety and economic growth27
WITHDRAWN: The hidden cost of organisation capital: Evidence from trade credit27
The role of market devices in addressing labour exploitation: An analysis of the Australian cleaning industry27
The price of corporate social irresponsibility in seasoned equity offerings: International evidence26
Reprint of: The capital market consequence of sustained abnormal Audit fees: Evidence from stock price crash risk26
Corporate social responsibility culture and international M&As25
Does budget target setting lead managers to engage in unethical behavior for the organization?24
Market reactions to a cross-border carbon policy: Evidence from listed Chinese companies24
To datafication and beyond: Digital transformation and accounting technologies in the healthcare sector23
Do generalist CEOs reduce corporate default risk?22
A real effect of climate-related shareholder proposals: Diversification22
WITHDRAWN: Third-party auditor liability risk and trade credit policies22
Firm size and cost system sophistication: The role of firm age22
Blockchain and earnings management: Evidence from the supply chain22
Editorial: What have we learned about green and climate finance?22
Withdrawal notice to: “Key audit matters disclosures and informed Traders” [YBARE 56 (6) (2024) 101386]21
Disclosure of investor relationship activities and stock crash risk: Evidence from private in-house meetings20
From debt breaches to employee safety: The hidden power of banking interventions20
OK, let’s talk. Firms’ willingness to communicate with retail investors: Evidence from controlling shareholders’ equity pledging20
The impact of hedge fund activism on audit pricing20
Hallmarks of Integrated Thinking20
On professional destabilization and accounting self-regulation19
Management accounting and artificial intelligence: A comprehensive literature review and recommendations for future research19
From whales to waves: Social media sentiment, volatility, and whales in cryptocurrency markets19
WITHDRAWN: Key audit matters disclosures and informed traders19
Climate risks and debt structure18
Social media analysts, investor attention, and IPO underpricing17
On the dynamics of treasury bond yields: From term structure modelling to economic scenario generation17
Textual dimensions of sustainability information, stock price informativeness, and proprietary costs: Evidence from integrated reports17
Do students have satisfying educational experiences at sustainable universities? Evidence from Australian universities17
The impact of green regulation on cost stickiness16
Linkage between strategy and financial performance disclosure in annual reports: A new reporting path for organizational learning16
Green wave goes up the stream: Green innovation among supply chain partners16
Auditor distraction: An unintended consequence of M&As15
ESG controversies and external assurance: Examining their impact on firm value and image15
WITHDRAWN: The use of machine learning algorithms to predict financial statement fraud15
Examining the re-territorialisation of beneficiary accountability: Digitising nonprofit services in response to COVID-1915
Climate risk disclosures and auditor expertise14
Digitalization and management accountants’ role conflict and ambiguity: A double-edged sword for the profession14
The spillover effect of natural disaster on analyst forecast inaccuracy: Evidence from shared analyst coverage14
Management controls and modern slavery risks in the building and construction industry: Lessons from an Australian social housing provider14
Deposit insurance and credit union earnings opacity13
Hybridity, institutional logics and value creation mechanisms in the corporatisation of social care13
Environmental externalities of corporate culture: Evidence from firm pollution13
WITHDRAWN: On the role and effects of supervisor feedback sign in auditing: Evidence from a cohort of early career auditors13
Long live the walking dead? Corporate tax avoidance and zombie firms in China13
Information leakage prior to market switches and the importance of Nominated Advisers13
The economic and cultural motives of green price premium12
Does the legal enforcement environment constrain earnings management in social enterprises? Evidence from microfinance institutions12
Uncovering the intensity of climate risk and opportunity: Awareness and effectiveness12
When a financially oriented performance measurement system supports hybrid collective sensemaking: The case of a cooperative bank12
Accounting practices and professional power dynamics during a crisis12
Hospital Management Accounting Systems: Evolving roles, actors, and interactions12
Language diversity, social trust, and corporate environmental performance12
Mandatory ESG reporting and cross-Listing activities: Worldwide evidence11
The effect of big data-driven tax enforcement on audit pricing: Evidence from China11
Dynamics of carbon risk, cost of debt and leverage adjustments11
Withdrawal notice to: <’ Does mandating corporate social and environmental disclosure improve social and environmental performance?: Broad-based evidence regarding the effectiveness of Directive 2011
Writing method sections in qualitative accounting research: Engaging with landmark citations through ‘instructively selective elaboration’11
Changes in bank profitability Post-CEO succession: Does prior CEO experience improve bank performance?11
Regulator as a minority shareholder and corporate fraud: Quasi-natural experiment evidence from the pilot project of China Securities Investor Services Center11
Withdrawal notice to: <’ Ex-ante Expected Changes in ESG and Future Stock Returns Based on Machine Learning ‘><[YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101457]>11
Why do banks acquire FinTech? The role of board cultural diversity11
Asymmetric reactions of abnormal audit fees jump to credit rating changes11
Withdrawal notice to: <’ Heterogeneity in the Integration of ESG Measures in Executive Compensation: Determinants, Contracting Details and Outcomes ‘><[YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101440]>11
Exploring the acquisition behavior of penny stock firms11
WITHDRAWN: Nineteenth century audit reports: Evolution from free-form to standardised wording10
Common auditors and relationship-specific investment in supplier-customer relationships10
Editorial Board10
Institutional mechanisms, ownership and bank risk-taking during crises10
Private equity buyout pricing, returns, and portfolio firm performance across UK regions10
Accounting scholarship and the Majority World: A case of epistemic injustice10
Social networks and venture capital investments around the world10
Narcissistic audit committee chairs and the quality of non-IFRS disclosures10
From traditional to digital: Unravelling performance measurement systems and accounting methods in drug treatment through a systematic review and content analysis9
The impact of terrorist attacks and mass shootings on earnings management9
Textual and AI-based analysis of climate disclosures: Evidence from the European energy sector9
Fintech and home bias: The power of new social capital in innovative entrepreneurial financing9
FinTech adoption in banks and their liquidity creation9
Short-selling activities in the time of COVID-199
Editorial Board9
Mandatory corporate social responsibility spending, family control, and the cost of debt9
Bridging accounting and finance with entrepreneurship: Business and social perspectives9
The role of political elites in income tax system design and tax fairness9
How do women accounting and finance professors develop and leverage their capitals for career advancement?9
Reprint of: The hidden cost of organisation capital: Evidence from trade credit8
Does board co-option affect corporate tax avoidance?8
Earnings management of target firms and deal premiums: The role of industry relatedness8
Smart defaults: Determining the number of default funds in a pension scheme8
Corporate environmental reporting in the China context: The interplay of stakeholder salience, socialist ideology and state power8
Strategy and business model disclosures in annual reports: The role of legal regime7
Does online interaction between firms and investors reduce stock price crash risk?7
WITHDRAWN: Mimicking crypto portfolios in sustainable investment7
The role of sustainability awards in institutionalising sustainability: Case study evidence7
Withdrawal notice“Audit committee member busyness and risk factor disclosure” [YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101442]7
Does more effective director monitoring make management guidance more credible?7
Political affiliation, cash flow volatility, and debt maturity in China6
Strategic reaction and tax avoidance: Evidence from the effect of large IPOs on peers6
Stock exchange oversight and investor quotes: Evidence from initial public offering comment letters in China6
Green is the new gold: The role of professional managers in enhancing ESG performance in Chinese state-owned enterprises6
Institutional ownership and investment by private companies6
Third-party auditor liability and financial restatements6
Riding the storm: How natural disasters shape financial advisor misconduct?6
COVID-19 pandemic and audit quality6
The information content of rating action reports: A topic modeling approach6
Local creative culture and audit fees6
Discretionary tone in reward-based crowdfunding: Do project owners talk their way to success?6
Shareholders' political hierarchy and regulatory enforcement: Evidence from corporate risk management6
Capitalism and the return on capital employed. Some further evidence6
Use of proceeds in private equity-backed initial public offerings5
Planning for business cycle fluctuations in budgeting: The application of innovative data sources and techniques5
A networked perspective on NGO accountability in the digital realm5
Family business origin and investment preference: An empirical study of imprinting theory5
Curbing myopic R&D behavior: How private meetings serve as a channel5
WITHDRAWN: The capital market consequence of sustained abnormal Audit fees: Evidence from stock price crash risk5
Withdrawal notice to“ On the role and effects of supervisor feedback sign in auditing: Evidence from a cohort of early career auditors” [YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101371]5
Does analyst ESG experience matter?5
Does non-financial information disclosure promote firm's exports? Evidence from China's mandatory CSR reporting regulation5
Stuck in traffic: Do auditors price traffic congestion?5
Do geographically nearby major customers mitigate suppliers’ stock price crash risk?5
The impacts of inventory in transfer pricing and net income: Differences between traditional accounting and throughput accounting5
Management control systems, business financial literacy and financial leverage in business-incubated start-ups5
WITHDRAWN: Ex-ante expected changes in ESG and future stock returns based on machine learning5
What drives individual investors in the bear market?5
Algorithmic trading and block ownership initiation: An information perspective5
The dual impact of on-chain and off-chain factors on Bitcoin market efficiency5
Digitalization as a form of marketization: The performativity of calculative practices in framing and overflowing NGO performance and accountability5
The effect of CSR assurance on subsequent corporate greenwashing: Suggestion acquisition or opinion shopping?5
“Fly alone, die alone”? The clan and the production of tax expertise5
Closing the cultural intelligence skills gap in accounting students: An action research approach to cross-cultural teamwork4
The impact of loosening regulatory requirements on firm innovation: Evidence from SEC rule 12h-64
The schizophrenic board secretary: An embedded agent between multiple stakeholders and financial misconduct4
Going big, going small: A perspective on strategies for researching audit quality4
Picturing success: The informational role of visual cues in initial coin offerings4
Data breach notification laws and the cost of private debt4
Towards fluid role identity of management accountants: A case study of a Finnish bank4
Tax Avoidance and Disclosure Strategies4
Political sentiment and corporate social responsibility4
Climate theory & managerial decisions on cross-border mergers4
Are boards' risk management committees associated with firms’ environmental performance?4
Unsung guardians? Communal fraud susceptibility and complaints following mass financial adviser attrition4
Institutionalisation of sustainability performance measurement and reporting: Insights from Victoria (Australia) and New Zealand universities4
Stock market reactions to adverse ESG disclosure via media channels4
The genre of banking financial product information: The characters, the setting, the plot and the story4
Long-run IPO performance and the role of venture capital4
Key audit matters disclosures from a legitimacy perspective: A European analysis4
Employee power and audit Fees: Worldwide evidence4
The influence of a globalized supply chain on corporate carbon management and disclosure4
Exporting corporate social responsibility: Evidence from foreign bank entry4
The decentralization enigma in DeFi: Impact of U.S. federal funds rate changes3
Board gender composition and waste management: Cross-country evidence3
Accounting and reporting for facing multiple values in meso-level hybrid organisations3
Is greater connectivity of financial and non-financial information in annual reports valued by market participants?3
Nurturing diversity in accounting through “Queering” accounting pedagogy3
WITHDRAWN: Does mandating corporate social and environmental disclosure improve social and environmental performance?: Broad-based evidence regarding the effectiveness of directive 2014/95/EU3
Exploring effectiveness of entity actions to eliminate modern slavery risk – Early Australian evidence3
Female lead auditors, audit fees, and audit quality3
Political sentiment and credit ratings3
Hybridisation, purification, and re-hybridisation: A study of shifting registers of value3
Withdrawal notice to: <’ The Use of Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict Financial Statement Fraud ‘><[YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101441]>3
Perceived enabling budget designs and motivational channels for learning in R&D projects3
China's infrastructure investments in Africa: An imperative for attaining sustainable development goals or a debt-trap?3
Bookkeeping, but not for profit: A special form of double entry in a 16th century Venetian charity3
Auditing decentralized finance3
Editorial Board3
Withdrawal notice to‟Nineteenth century audit reports: Evolution from free-form to standardised wording” [YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101428]3
Editorial Board3
Devolution, counter-conduct and territoriality: The case of Tax Business Rates in the United Kingdom3
WITHDRAWN: Corporate culture and carbon emission performance3
Financial statement comparability and analysts’ optimism for accruals3
Controlling shareholder share pledging and the cost of equity capital: Evidence from China3
Do auditors’ early-life socioeconomic opportunities improve audit quality? Evidence from China3
Cross-border enforcement of securities laws and dividend payouts3
Public value disclosure by Brazilian federal universities3
Do tax incentives make firms greener? Evidence from the accelerated depreciation policy in China3
New Public Management between reality and illusion: Analysing the validity of performance-based budgeting3
Megaprojects and hybridity. Accounting and performance challenges for multiple diverse actors and values3
Do acquirers care about credit rating consequences? Evidence from credit rating watches3
Signals from CSR competition: The influence of relative CSR performance on analysts’ recommendations2
WITHDRAWN: Audit committee member busyness and risk factor disclosure2
Implementing problematic tax regulation: Hysteresis and bureaucratic revolutionaries within tax administrations2
Withdrawal notice to: “Third-party auditor liability risk and trade credit policies” [YBARE 56 (6) (2024) 101454]2
Does practice make perfect? The effect of online formative assessments on students’ self-efficacy and test anxiety2
Managerial risk-reducing incentives and social and exchange capital2
CEO succession origin and annual reports readability2
Managing the shift from voluntary to mandatory climate disclosure: The role of carbon accounting2
Withdrawal notice to: < Mimicking Crypto Portfolios in Sustainable Investment ‘><[YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101463]>2
Do investor reactions to merger announcements shape the writing of SEC filings?2
Beware of false prophets: Cybersecurity risk and strategic voluntary disclosure2
Let's have a relook at accountability2
Do conformity and bailouts affect misreporting? The case of public health-care organisations2
The benefits of small business FinTech lending: Evidence from entrepreneurs’ consumption structure2
Does lowball guidance work? An analysis of firms that consistently beat their guidance by large margins2
Auditor choice in reverse mergers: Evidence from China2
Carbon emissions and bank risk around the world2
Can green finance policy reduce corporate carbon emissions? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China2
Impression management, forward-looking strategy-related disclosure, and excess executive compensation: Evidence from China2
How do borrower ESG performance and risks matter to banks?2
Director networks, accounting conservatism and director reputation: Evidence after financial reporting failure2
High-speed railways, audit partner changes across audit offices and audit quality: Evidence from China2
Exploring accounting academics’ views on sustainability: A Freirean dialogical pedagogic perspective2
Learning to be green: Accounting comparability and environmental violations2
COVID-19 profit warnings: Delivering bad news in a time of crisis2
Choice of financial audit firm and ESG assurance firm: The role of board of director characteristics2
Analyst coverage overlaps and similarity in corporate social activities2
Talking across purposes [sic] in social investing: Standardising boundary objects in times of crisis2
Performance management in a milieu of customer participatory measurement: Beyond the ratings and rankings of Strictly Come Dancing2
Discretionary reporting and analyst forecasts of operating income under IFRS2
Strategic forward-looking nonearnings disclosure and overinvestment2
Reprint of: The use of machine learning algorithms to predict financial statement fraud2
Audit quality in the face of a crisis: Evidence from the audit inspection scandal2
We are under attack: Terrorist attacks and director turnover2
Should underwriters be trusted? Reducing agency costs through primary market supervision2
Online judicial auction, loan availability, and corporate investment in China2
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