British Accounting Review

Papers
(The median citation count of British Accounting Review is 1. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Australia's divided accounting profession: The 1969 merger attempt and its legacy256
Paupers, burial clubs and funeral insurance: Calculating moral panics163
Does the effect of the annual year taboo exist? Empirical evidence from senior managers’ zodiac year and corporate inefficient investment118
The effects of extreme high temperature spells on financial performance68
Long live the walking dead? Corporate tax avoidance and zombie firms in China66
We are under attack: Terrorist attacks and director turnover32
Editorial Board31
“Fly alone, die alone”? The clan and the production of tax expertise29
Does CEO extraversion pay off when in need? Evidence from the global financial crisis28
Do investor reactions to merger announcements shape the writing of SEC filings?28
Reprint of: Mimicking crypto portfolios in sustainable investment28
Digital postcolonialism and NGO accountability during COVID-19: Evidence from the Gaza Strip27
Uncovering the intensity of climate risk and opportunity: Awareness and effectiveness26
Curbing myopic R&D behavior: How private meetings serve as a channel25
Deposit insurance and credit union earnings opacity25
Does the market value the green credit performance of banks? Evidence from bank loan announcements25
Overlapping insiders and the method of payment in acquisitions: New tests and evidence on adverse selection23
The validity of management accounting language games – A pragmatic constructive perspective22
Editorial Board22
The bright side of common ownership: Evidence from bank transparency22
Investment decisions: The trade-off between economic and environmental objectives21
Making sense of employee satisfaction measurement – A technological frames of reference perspective20
Accounting practices and professional power dynamics during a crisis20
When a financially oriented performance measurement system supports hybrid collective sensemaking: The case of a cooperative bank18
Languages and dividends18
Understanding corporate governance in China16
Ripple effects of innovation: How does peer influence shape corporate innovation across countries?16
Director networks, accounting conservatism and director reputation: Evidence after financial reporting failure15
From apathy to activism: Shareholder dissent on director's pay proposals and board effectiveness15
Online judicial auction, loan availability, and corporate investment in China14
High-speed railways, audit partner changes across audit offices and audit quality: Evidence from China14
Carbon accounting for the translation of net-zero targets into business operations14
Firstborn CEOs and credit ratings13
Family business origin and investment preference: An empirical study of imprinting theory13
High-quality assurance, ESG legitimacy threats and board effectiveness13
Human capital in the financial sector and corporate innovation: Evidence from China12
Management control systems, business financial literacy and financial leverage in business-incubated start-ups12
Sell-side equity analysts and equity sales: A study of interaction12
Actors constructing accountability in hybrid organisations: The case of a Swedish municipal corporation11
Do geographically nearby major customers mitigate suppliers’ stock price crash risk?11
Are key audit matter disclosures useful in assessing the financial distress level of a client firm?11
Withdrawal notice to: <’ Political Uncertainty, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Firm Performance ‘><[YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101467]>10
Does cooperation among women enhance or impede firm performance?10
WITHDRAWN: Political uncertainty, corporate social responsibility, and firm performance10
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]10
Bitcoin under the microscope10
Digitalization as a form of marketization: The performativity of calculative practices in framing and overflowing NGO performance and accountability10
The impacts of inventory in transfer pricing and net income: Differences between traditional accounting and throughput accounting10
Determinants and consequences of sales/production report issuance10
WITHDRAWN: Ex-ante expected changes in ESG and future stock returns based on machine learning9
Planning for business cycle fluctuations in budgeting: The application of innovative data sources and techniques9
Withdrawal notice to: “Third-party auditor liability risk and trade credit policies” [YBARE 56 (6) (2024) 101454]9
Language diversity, social trust, and corporate environmental performance9
Beware of false prophets: Cybersecurity risk and strategic voluntary disclosure9
Talking across purposes [sic] in social investing: Standardising boundary objects in times of crisis9
Keep a watchful eye on both: The impact of the joint terms of ruling party and government leaders on family firm government subsidies8
Explaining green bond issuance using survey evidence: Beyond the greenium8
Accounting and governance in the final years of the Papal States: Dual roles in the papacy of Pius IX (1846–1870)8
The genre of banking financial product information: The characters, the setting, the plot and the story8
The role of science-based targets on carbon mitigation: Addressing the tension between net zero anxiety and economic growth8
Civil liberties and social and environmental information transparency: A global investigation of financial institutions8
The effect of corporate sustainability performance on leverage adjustments7
How can regulators affect corporate social responsibility? Evidence from regulatory disclosures of consumer complaints in the U.S.7
Withdrawal notice to “Rank-and-file employee stock options and audit pricing: Evidence from S&P 1500 firms” [YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101422]7
NGOs’ performance, governance, and accountability in the era of digital transformation7
The blindfold witness? An accountant's response to slavery and atrocity in the Devil's Paradise7
Political sentiment and corporate social responsibility7
Going big, going small: A perspective on strategies for researching audit quality7
The impact of the UK's Modern Slavery Act (2015) on the disclosure of FTSE 100 companies7
Are boards' risk management committees associated with firms’ environmental performance?7
WITHDRAWN: The capital market consequence of sustained abnormal Audit fees: Evidence from stock price crash risk7
What’s in a shade? The market relevance of green bonds’ external reviews7
Why do banks acquire FinTech? The role of board cultural diversity6
The effect of big data-driven tax enforcement on audit pricing: Evidence from China6
Can green finance policy reduce corporate carbon emissions? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China6
Regulator as a minority shareholder and corporate fraud: Quasi-natural experiment evidence from the pilot project of China Securities Investor Services Center6
Vertical, horizontal, and self control in academia: Survey evidence on their diverging effects on perceived researcher autonomy and identity6
Stock market reactions to adverse ESG disclosure via media channels6
Managerial risk-reducing incentives and social and exchange capital6
Stakeholders’ perceptions of factors affecting the credibility of sustainability reports6
The impact of loosening regulatory requirements on firm innovation: Evidence from SEC rule 12h-66
Is bank diversification a linking channel between regulatory capital and bank value?6
Is social capital valuable? Evidence from mergers and acquisitions6
Accounting for heritage assets: Thomas Holloway's picture collection, 1881–20196
The collapse of the FTX exchange: The end of cryptocurrency's age of innocence6
Impression management, forward-looking strategy-related disclosure, and excess executive compensation: Evidence from China6
Share pledging and corporate misconduct6
Closing the cultural intelligence skills gap in accounting students: An action research approach to cross-cultural teamwork6
Narrative disclosure quality and the timeliness of goodwill impairments5
Cross-border regulatory cooperation and cash holdings: Evidence from US-listed foreign firms5
The geography of environmental regulation: Plant-level emissions data5
Lesson from stock price crash: Changes in managerial confidence and incentives5
The role of market devices in addressing labour exploitation: An analysis of the Australian cleaning industry5
Sustainable development goals, accounting practices and public financial management: A pre and post COVID-19 assessment5
Manager sentiment, deal characteristics, and takeover performance5
Climate theory & managerial decisions on cross-border mergers5
The schizophrenic board secretary: An embedded agent between multiple stakeholders and financial misconduct5
Capitalised development costs and future cash flows: The effect of CEO overconfidence and board gender diversity4
Changes in bank profitability Post-CEO succession: Does prior CEO experience improve bank performance?4
Strategic forward-looking nonearnings disclosure and overinvestment4
CEO succession origin and annual reports readability4
Hedge fund strategies, performance &diversification: A portfolio theory & stochastic discount factor approach4
Asymmetric reactions of abnormal audit fees jump to credit rating changes4
Performance management in a milieu of customer participatory measurement: Beyond the ratings and rankings of Strictly Come Dancing4
Developing critical reflection: An integrated approach4
Economic policy uncertainty, carbon emissions and firm valuation: International evidence4
Hybrid board governance: Exploring the challenges in implementing social impact measurements4
A French connection; paths to a ‘new system’ of accounting for the Royal Navy in 18324
Validating implied cost of capital with realized returns by using alternative measures of cash-flow news4
Dynamics of carbon risk, cost of debt and leverage adjustments4
Exploring the acquisition behavior of penny stock firms4
Central supervision and earnings management: Quasi-experimental evidence from China4
Investor behavior around targeted liquidity announcements4
The sociomateriality of digitalisation in Nepalese NGOs3
Does real flexibility help firms navigate the COVID-19 pandemic?3
Reprint of: The use of machine learning algorithms to predict financial statement fraud3
Writing method sections in qualitative accounting research: Engaging with landmark citations through ‘instructively selective elaboration’3
FinTech adoption in banks and their liquidity creation3
Withdrawal notice “The capital market consequence of sustained abnormal Audit fees”: Evidence from stock price crash risk [YBARE 56/6 (2024) / 101387]3
Withdrawal notice to: <’ Heterogeneity in the Integration of ESG Measures in Executive Compensation: Determinants, Contracting Details and Outcomes ‘><[YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101440]>3
WITHDRAWN: Does mandating corporate social and environmental disclosure improve social and environmental performance?: Broad-based evidence regarding the effectiveness of directive 2014/95/EU3
Withdrawal notice to: < Mimicking Crypto Portfolios in Sustainable Investment ‘><[YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101463]>3
Reprint of: Third-party auditor liability risk and trade credit policies3
COVID-19 JobKeeper policy: Accounting for ‘many voices’ in the community3
China's infrastructure investments in Africa: An imperative for attaining sustainable development goals or a debt-trap?3
WITHDRAWN: Nineteenth century audit reports: Evolution from free-form to standardised wording3
Are FinTech lending apps harmful? Evidence from user experience in the Indian market3
MANAGING THE SHIFT FROM VOLUNTARY TO MANDATORY CLIMATE DISCLOSURE: THE ROLE OF CARBON ACCOUNTING3
WITHDRAWN: The hidden cost of organisation capital: Evidence from trade credit3
Reprint of: Heterogeneity in the integration of ESG measures in executive compensation: Determinants, contracting details and outcomes3
Which governance mechanisms matter for firm pollution?3
The effect of real earnings smoothing on corporate labour investment3
Withdrawal notice to: <’ Corporate Culture and Carbon Emission Performance ‘> <[YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101462]>3
Reprint of: The capital market consequence of sustained abnormal Audit fees: Evidence from stock price crash risk2
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) disclosure: A literature review2
Pension funds and IPO pricing. Evidence from a quasi-experiment2
Why Muddy the Water? Short selling and the disclosure of proprietary information2
Academic entrepreneurial hybrids: Accounting and accountability in the case of MegaRide2
Accounting conservatism and corporate social responsibility2
Busy auditors, financial reporting timeliness and quality2
Public value disclosure by Brazilian federal universities2
To datafication and beyond: Digital transformation and accounting technologies in the healthcare sector2
A real effect of climate-related shareholder proposals: Diversification2
Short-selling activities in the time of COVID-192
Towards fluid role identity of management accountants: A case study of a Finnish bank2
Do auditors’ early-life socioeconomic opportunities improve audit quality? Evidence from China2
Corporate social responsibility culture and international M&As2
Does budget target setting lead managers to engage in unethical behavior for the organization?2
Does shared tenure between audit committee chair and engagement partner affect audit outcomes? Evidence from the UK2
Accounting research for the digital age2
Withdrawal notice to: <’ Does mandating corporate social and environmental disclosure improve social and environmental performance?: Broad-based evidence regarding the effectiveness of Directive 202
Firm size and cost system sophistication: The role of firm age2
Does boardroom nationality affect the performance of UK insurers?2
Institutional mechanisms, ownership and bank risk-taking during crises2
Picturing success: The informational role of visual cues in initial coin offerings2
The effect of key audit matters and management disclosures on auditors’ judgements and decisions: An exploratory study2
The impact of terrorist attacks and mass shootings on earnings management2
The use of management accounting information by boards of directors to oversee strategy implementation2
The role of political elites in income tax system design and tax fairness2
Withdrawal notice to: <’ Ex-ante Expected Changes in ESG and Future Stock Returns Based on Machine Learning ‘><[YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101457]>2
Institutionalisation of sustainability performance measurement and reporting: Insights from Victoria (Australia) and New Zealand universities1
Audit firm merger and the strategic response by large audit firms1
Firm connection and equity return predictability – Graph-based machine learning methods1
Soldiers don't go mad: Shell shock and accounting intransigence in the British Army 1914-181
Making outside directors inside: Independent directors’ corporate site visits and real earnings management1
Unsung guardians? Communal fraud susceptibility and complaints following mass financial adviser attrition1
Hallmarks of Integrated Thinking1
Does the threat of enforcement of financial regulations affect the cost of equity in weak institutional environments?1
Blockchain and earnings management: Evidence from the supply chain1
Market reactions to a cross-border carbon policy: Evidence from listed Chinese companies1
Uncovering interfirm links through textual topic similarity: A comomentum analysis in financial markets1
Gender differences in the first course in accounting: An achievement goal approach1
Do client protection principles matter for the economic and social performance of microfinance institutions?1
Does FinTech efficiently hamper manipulating ESG data behavior?1
Corporate governance transformation: Editorial review1
Editorial Board1
The influence of socially responsible practices on corporate hedging1
The market response to mandatory disclosure of payments to foreign governments1
Social network, corporate governance, and rent extraction in CEO compensation: Evidence from spatial econometric models1
Mandatory corporate social responsibility spending, family control, and the cost of debt1
The price of corporate social irresponsibility in seasoned equity offerings: International evidence1
Exporting corporate social responsibility: Evidence from foreign bank entry1
Do peer firms influence innovation?1
Disclosure of investor relationship activities and stock crash risk: Evidence from private in-house meetings1
On professional destabilization and accounting self-regulation1
How do auditor rotations affect key audit matters? Archival evidence from South African audits1
Data breach notification laws and the cost of private debt1
The effect of ESG-motivated turnover on firm financial risk1
When corporate culture matters: The case of stakeholder violations1
How auditors identify and report key audit matters - An organizational routines perspective1
Bankruptcy forecasting — Market information with ensemble model1
Auditing decentralized finance1
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