British Accounting Review

Papers
(The median citation count of British Accounting Review is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Determinants and consequences of sales/production report issuance620
Actors constructing accountability in hybrid organisations: The case of a Swedish municipal corporation132
Understanding corporate governance in China73
Does the market value the green credit performance of banks? Evidence from bank loan announcements59
Does CEO extraversion pay off when in need? Evidence from the global financial crisis56
The bright side of common ownership: Evidence from bank transparency52
Are key audit matter disclosures useful in assessing the financial distress level of a client firm?52
Languages and dividends50
Carbon accounting for the translation of net-zero targets into business operations45
Bitcoin under the microscope44
The Academic Legacy of Professor Michael John Jones (1953–2023): Accounting narratives, financial graphs, medieval accounting history and accounting for biodiversity44
The role of market devices in addressing labour exploitation: An analysis of the Australian cleaning industry42
Keep a watchful eye on both: The impact of the joint terms of ruling party and government leaders on family firm government subsidies41
When stimulus strikes: The predictive power of accruals after government stimulus packages38
The impact of the UK's Modern Slavery Act (2015) on the disclosure of FTSE 100 companies37
Investor behavior around targeted liquidity announcements36
Vertical, horizontal, and self control in academia: Survey evidence on their diverging effects on perceived researcher autonomy and identity35
Withdrawal notice to “Rank-and-file employee stock options and audit pricing: Evidence from S&P 1500 firms” [YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101422]34
How do investors perceive firms’ hiring of local CEOs? Evidence from the cost of equity capital34
The geography of environmental regulation: Plant-level emissions data32
Is bank diversification a linking channel between regulatory capital and bank value?31
Cross-border regulatory cooperation and cash holdings: Evidence from US-listed foreign firms30
WITHDRAWN: The hidden cost of organisation capital: Evidence from trade credit30
The role of science-based targets on carbon mitigation: Addressing the tension between net zero anxiety and economic growth30
NGOs’ performance, governance, and accountability in the era of digital transformation29
The price of corporate social irresponsibility in seasoned equity offerings: International evidence27
Editorial Board27
Reprint of: The capital market consequence of sustained abnormal Audit fees: Evidence from stock price crash risk25
Editorial: What have we learned about green and climate finance?24
Do generalist CEOs reduce corporate default risk?24
A real effect of climate-related shareholder proposals: Diversification24
Market reactions to a cross-border carbon policy: Evidence from listed Chinese companies23
Does budget target setting lead managers to engage in unethical behavior for the organization?22
To datafication and beyond: Digital transformation and accounting technologies in the healthcare sector22
Blockchain and earnings management: Evidence from the supply chain22
OK, let’s talk. Firms’ willingness to communicate with retail investors: Evidence from controlling shareholders’ equity pledging21
Withdrawal notice to: “Key audit matters disclosures and informed Traders” [YBARE 56 (6) (2024) 101386]21
Do managers care about analyst attention to ESG?21
WITHDRAWN: Third-party auditor liability risk and trade credit policies21
Disclosure of investor relationship activities and stock crash risk: Evidence from private in-house meetings20
WITHDRAWN: Key audit matters disclosures and informed traders20
On professional destabilization and accounting self-regulation20
Management accounting and artificial intelligence: A comprehensive literature review and recommendations for future research19
The impact of hedge fund activism on audit pricing19
From whales to waves: Social media sentiment, volatility, and whales in cryptocurrency markets19
From debt breaches to employee safety: The hidden power of banking interventions19
Textual dimensions of sustainability information, stock price informativeness, and proprietary costs: Evidence from integrated reports18
WITHDRAWN: The use of machine learning algorithms to predict financial statement fraud18
Examining the re-territorialisation of beneficiary accountability: Digitising nonprofit services in response to COVID-1918
Do students have satisfying educational experiences at sustainable universities? Evidence from Australian universities18
Hallmarks of Integrated Thinking18
The impact of green regulation on cost stickiness18
Social media analysts, investor attention, and IPO underpricing18
Linkage between strategy and financial performance disclosure in annual reports: A new reporting path for organizational learning17
Climate risks and debt structure16
Green wave goes up the stream: Green innovation among supply chain partners16
Information leakage prior to market switches and the importance of Nominated Advisers16
On the dynamics of treasury bond yields: From term structure modelling to economic scenario generation16
Auditor distraction: An unintended consequence of M&As16
WITHDRAWN: On the role and effects of supervisor feedback sign in auditing: Evidence from a cohort of early career auditors15
The spillover effect of natural disaster on analyst forecast inaccuracy: Evidence from shared analyst coverage15
Management controls and modern slavery risks in the building and construction industry: Lessons from an Australian social housing provider15
Deposit insurance and credit union earnings opacity15
Climate risk disclosures and auditor expertise15
ESG controversies and external assurance: Examining their impact on firm value and image15
Digitalization and management accountants’ role conflict and ambiguity: A double-edged sword for the profession15
Hybridity, institutional logics and value creation mechanisms in the corporatisation of social care15
From bytes to bucks: The influence of social media commentary on private placements in Chinese listed companies15
Accounting practices and professional power dynamics during a crisis14
Does the legal enforcement environment constrain earnings management in social enterprises? Evidence from microfinance institutions14
Environmental externalities of corporate culture: Evidence from firm pollution14
Language diversity, social trust, and corporate environmental performance14
Technical talk in bitcoin and equity14
The economic and cultural motives of green price premium14
Corrigendum to “Does audit Partner–Client relationship affect managerial tone? Evidence from earnings conference calls question and answer Sessions” [The British Accounting Review 101781]14
Editorial: Special Issue New challenges in governance, sustainability and accountability of universities13
The effect of big data-driven tax enforcement on audit pricing: Evidence from China13
Dynamics of carbon risk, cost of debt and leverage adjustments13
Long live the walking dead? Corporate tax avoidance and zombie firms in China13
When a financially oriented performance measurement system supports hybrid collective sensemaking: The case of a cooperative bank13
Exploring the acquisition behavior of penny stock firms13
Writing method sections in qualitative accounting research: Engaging with landmark citations through ‘instructively selective elaboration’13
Hospital Management Accounting Systems: Evolving roles, actors, and interactions13
Uncovering the intensity of climate risk and opportunity: Awareness and effectiveness13
Regulator as a minority shareholder and corporate fraud: Quasi-natural experiment evidence from the pilot project of China Securities Investor Services Center13
Changes in bank profitability Post-CEO succession: Does prior CEO experience improve bank performance?12
Why do banks acquire FinTech? The role of board cultural diversity12
Mobile banking transaction volume and perceived service quality: A text analytics approach12
Predicting financial distress using textual risk disclosures in annual reports: How and what risks are disclosed?12
Mandatory ESG reporting and cross-Listing activities: Worldwide evidence12
The impact of integrated thinking on firm value: An international perspective12
Editorial Board11
The impact of diversification on industry effects in firm profitability forecasting11
Asymmetric reactions of abnormal audit fees jump to credit rating changes11
Editorial Board10
Bridging accounting and finance with entrepreneurship: Business and social perspectives10
From traditional to digital: Unravelling performance measurement systems and accounting methods in drug treatment through a systematic review and content analysis10
Withdrawal notice to: <’ Heterogeneity in the Integration of ESG Measures in Executive Compensation: Determinants, Contracting Details and Outcomes ‘><[YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101440]>10
Narcissistic audit committee chairs and the quality of non-IFRS disclosures10
The impact of terrorist attacks and mass shootings on earnings management10
WITHDRAWN: Nineteenth century audit reports: Evolution from free-form to standardised wording10
Withdrawal notice to: <’ Does mandating corporate social and environmental disclosure improve social and environmental performance?: Broad-based evidence regarding the effectiveness of Directive 2010
Withdrawal notice to: <’ Ex-ante Expected Changes in ESG and Future Stock Returns Based on Machine Learning ‘><[YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101457]>10
Social networks and venture capital investments around the world10
The role of political elites in income tax system design and tax fairness10
Private equity buyout pricing, returns, and portfolio firm performance across UK regions10
Institutional mechanisms, ownership and bank risk-taking during crises9
Mandatory corporate social responsibility spending, family control, and the cost of debt9
How do women accounting and finance professors develop and leverage their capitals for career advancement?9
Short-selling activities in the time of COVID-199
FinTech adoption in banks and their liquidity creation9
Accounting scholarship and the Majority World: A case of epistemic injustice9
The costs of being stuck in traffic: Evidence from debt contracting9
Common auditors and relationship-specific investment in supplier-customer relationships9
Editorial Board9
Reprint of: The hidden cost of organisation capital: Evidence from trade credit8
When employee incentives bias cost information: On the tension between decision-making and control8
Fintech and home bias: The power of new social capital in innovative entrepreneurial financing8
Strategy and business model disclosures in annual reports: The role of legal regime8
Institutional ownership and investment by private companies8
Does board co-option affect corporate tax avoidance?8
Isn't it ironic? The unintended consequences of audit firm efforts to increase auditor awareness of blockchain8
Bureaucratic discretion and auditor choice: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment8
Political affiliation, cash flow volatility, and debt maturity in China8
Does online interaction between firms and investors reduce stock price crash risk?8
Smart defaults: Determining the number of default funds in a pension scheme8
Textual and AI-based analysis of climate disclosures: Evidence from the European energy sector8
Corporate environmental reporting in the China context: The interplay of stakeholder salience, socialist ideology and state power8
Does more effective director monitoring make management guidance more credible?8
Stock exchange oversight and investor quotes: Evidence from initial public offering comment letters in China8
Capitalism and the return on capital employed. Some further evidence7
WITHDRAWN: Mimicking crypto portfolios in sustainable investment7
Local creative culture and audit fees7
Discretionary tone in reward-based crowdfunding: Do project owners talk their way to success?7
Withdrawal notice“Audit committee member busyness and risk factor disclosure” [YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101442]7
The role of sustainability awards in institutionalising sustainability: Case study evidence7
The information content of rating action reports: A topic modeling approach7
Riding the storm: How natural disasters shape financial advisor misconduct?6
Editorial Board6
Algorithmic trading and block ownership initiation: An information perspective6
Green is the new gold: The role of professional managers in enhancing ESG performance in Chinese state-owned enterprises6
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]6
WITHDRAWN: Ex-ante expected changes in ESG and future stock returns based on machine learning6
Strategic reaction and tax avoidance: Evidence from the effect of large IPOs on peers6
What drives individual investors in the bear market?6
Does non-financial information disclosure promote firm's exports? Evidence from China's mandatory CSR reporting regulation6
Does analyst ESG experience matter?6
Shareholders' political hierarchy and regulatory enforcement: Evidence from corporate risk management6
Curbing myopic R&D behavior: How private meetings serve as a channel6
Use of proceeds in private equity-backed initial public offerings6
Asset revaluations and credit conditions6
COVID-19 pandemic and audit quality6
Rhetorical big baths following CEO turnovers6
Third-party auditor liability and financial restatements6
A networked perspective on NGO accountability in the digital realm6
“Fly alone, die alone”? The clan and the production of tax expertise6
Stuck in traffic: Do auditors price traffic congestion?6
Long-run IPO performance and the role of venture capital5
WITHDRAWN: The capital market consequence of sustained abnormal Audit fees: Evidence from stock price crash risk5
Family business origin and investment preference: An empirical study of imprinting theory5
The dual impact of on-chain and off-chain factors on Bitcoin market efficiency5
Closing the cultural intelligence skills gap in accounting students: An action research approach to cross-cultural teamwork5
Tax avoidance and disclosure strategies5
Does commitment to operational sustainability pay off? International evidence5
Key audit matters disclosures from a legitimacy perspective: A European analysis5
Strategic opportunism or risk response? Customer real earnings management following supplier litigation5
Do geographically nearby major customers mitigate suppliers’ stock price crash risk?5
Political sentiment and corporate social responsibility5
The effect of CSR assurance on subsequent corporate greenwashing: Suggestion acquisition or opinion shopping?5
The impact of loosening regulatory requirements on firm innovation: Evidence from SEC rule 12h-65
Climate theory & managerial decisions on cross-border mergers5
The schizophrenic board secretary: An embedded agent between multiple stakeholders and financial misconduct5
Planning for business cycle fluctuations in budgeting: The application of innovative data sources and techniques5
Management control systems, business financial literacy and financial leverage in business-incubated start-ups5
Digitalization as a form of marketization: The performativity of calculative practices in framing and overflowing NGO performance and accountability5
The genre of banking financial product information: The characters, the setting, the plot and the story5
Market Uncertainty and Workplace Safety: Evidence from China5
Commercial reform and corporate investment efficiency: The roles of governmental administrative efficiency, information transparency, and regulatory oversight4
Data breach notification laws and the cost of private debt4
Towards fluid role identity of management accountants: A case study of a Finnish bank4
Public value disclosure by Brazilian federal universities4
Editorial Board4
Accounting and reporting for facing multiple values in meso-level hybrid organisations4
Do tax incentives make firms greener? Evidence from the accelerated depreciation policy in China4
Exploring effectiveness of entity actions to eliminate modern slavery risk – Early Australian evidence4
Is greater connectivity of financial and non-financial information in annual reports valued by market participants?4
Bookkeeping, but not for profit: A special form of double entry in a 16th century Venetian charity4
The decentralization enigma in DeFi: Impact of U.S. federal funds rate changes4
WITHDRAWN: Does mandating corporate social and environmental disclosure improve social and environmental performance?: Broad-based evidence regarding the effectiveness of directive 2014/95/EU4
China's infrastructure investments in Africa: An imperative for attaining sustainable development goals or a debt-trap?4
Employee power and audit Fees: Worldwide evidence4
Institutionalisation of sustainability performance measurement and reporting: Insights from Victoria (Australia) and New Zealand universities4
Going big, going small: A perspective on strategies for researching audit quality4
Cross-border enforcement of securities laws and dividend payouts4
Hybridisation, purification, and re-hybridisation: A study of shifting registers of value4
WITHDRAWN: Corporate culture and carbon emission performance4
Withdrawal notice to: <’ The Use of Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict Financial Statement Fraud ‘><[YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101441]>4
Bilateral political relations and analyst herding4
Auditing decentralized finance4
Picturing success: The informational role of visual cues in initial coin offerings4
Unsung guardians? Communal fraud susceptibility and complaints following mass financial adviser attrition4
Exporting corporate social responsibility: Evidence from foreign bank entry4
The influence of a globalized supply chain on corporate carbon management and disclosure4
Financial statement comparability and analysts’ optimism for accruals4
Perceived enabling budget designs and motivational channels for learning in R&D projects4
Controlling shareholder share pledging and the cost of equity capital: Evidence from China4
Editorial Board4
Auditor choice in reverse mergers: Evidence from China3
WITHDRAWN: Audit committee member busyness and risk factor disclosure3
Megaprojects and hybridity. Accounting and performance challenges for multiple diverse actors and values3
Does lowball guidance work? An analysis of firms that consistently beat their guidance by large margins3
Do acquirers care about credit rating consequences? Evidence from credit rating watches3
Analyst coverage overlaps and similarity in corporate social activities3
Let's have a relook at accountability3
Withdrawal notice to‟Nineteenth century audit reports: Evolution from free-form to standardised wording” [YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101428]3
Does practice make perfect? The effect of online formative assessments on students’ self-efficacy and test anxiety3
Do conformity and bailouts affect misreporting? The case of public health-care organisations3
Choice of financial audit firm and ESG assurance firm: The role of board of director characteristics3
Female lead auditors, audit fees, and audit quality3
Devolution, counter-conduct and territoriality: The case of Tax Business Rates in the United Kingdom3
Innovation in capital funding by public hospitals during austerity: Evidence from the English National Health Service3
Auditors’ inter-organizational upward mobility and audit quality3
Learning to be green: Accounting comparability and environmental violations3
Audit quality in the face of a crisis: Evidence from the audit inspection scandal3
Should underwriters be trusted? Reducing agency costs through primary market supervision3
Political sentiment and credit ratings3
Board gender composition and waste management: Cross-country evidence3
Nurturing diversity in accounting through “Queering” accounting pedagogy3
Implementing problematic tax regulation: Hysteresis and bureaucratic revolutionaries within tax administrations3
Signals from CSR competition: The influence of relative CSR performance on analysts’ recommendations3
The benefits of small business FinTech lending: Evidence from entrepreneurs’ consumption structure3
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