Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Papers
(The TQCC of Critical Perspectives on Accounting is 11. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board/Publication Information478
Editorial Board/Publication Information230
Mediating ESG: Mapping individual responses to a changing field58
Suffer little children: Power, boundaries and the epistemology of ignorance in accounting for Church and State48
How tax administration influences social justice: The relational power of accounting technologies44
Denunciation and resistance in post-crisis sensemaking44
Language was always a companion of the empire43
The internationalization of Italian critical accounting scholarship: between language and national tradition39
Critical accounting as an indigenous project39
Accounting for ignorance: An investigation into corruption, immigration and the state38
Editorial Board/Publication Information36
Accountability for sustainability – An institutional entrepreneur as the representative of future stakeholders35
Double-entry bookkeeping and single-entry bookkeeping: Their comparative advantages, complementarity and coexistence35
Popular culture and totalitarianism: Accounting for propaganda in Italy under the Fascist regime (1934–1945)34
Gender Responsive Budgeting: A tool for gender equality33
The productive accountant as (un-)wanted self: Realizing the ambivalent role of productivity measures in accountants’ identity work32
Code as constitution: The negotiation of a uniform accounting code for U.S. railway corporations and the moral justification of stakeholder claims on wealth31
ChatGPT and accounting in African contexts: Amplifying epistemic injustice29
The role of regressive sugar tax in the soft drink industry levy (SDIL): A Marxist analysis29
Management accountants—A gendered image29
Imagining cooperative tax regulation: Common origins, divergent paths28
Critical reflections of accounting and social impact (Part II)28
Editorial Board/Publication Information27
How auditors legitimize commercialism: A micro-discursive analysis25
Wealth taxes and the post-COVID future of the state22
Quo vadis? The future of interdisciplinary accounting research22
Sophistry and high electricity prices in Australia21
The translation of an extraordinary event and the role of accounts: The covid-19 case21
Symbols in wood as a means of reciprocity: Accounting and social cohesion in pluralistic economies20
Intellectual engagements of accounting academics: The ‘forecasted losses' intervention20
A sticky chocolate problem: Impression management and counter accounts in the shaping of corporate image20
Editorial Board/Publication Information20
Therapeutic governance: The art of mediating shame and blame and quasi-judicial pragmatic technologies in Indonesian government auditor-auditee engagements19
The Chinese accounting profession in the People’s Republic: A preliminary understanding from an oral history perspective19
Beyond conventional financialization: Intersectional insights and Indigenous responses to financial inequality in the UK19
Media framing in Wirecard’s fraud scandal: Facts, failures, and spying fraudster fantasies18
The quid pro quo of charity: accounting, power and social positioning18
Social investment innovation and the ‘social turn’ of neoliberal finance18
Editorial Board/Publication Information18
Stories of resistance: The role of online forums in response to Uber’s algorithmic management18
Diversity, dialogic pedagogy and intersubjectivity in the classroom: Contributions from the Global South17
Constructing housing literacy through financial literacy17
Is critique sustainable? A commentary on Bigoni and Mohammed17
Working apart: Remote working and social bonding in the Big Four audit firms16
Critical accounting scholarship and social movements: The case of rail privatisation in Britain15
Subject, method and praxis – Conducting critical studies in accounting research15
A stakeholder salience perspective on performance and management control systems in non-profit organisations15
Fiscal decentralization in the nude: Discursive struggles and the stalling of its implementation in Jamaica15
The silent resistance: An ethnographic study of the use of silence to resist accounting and managerialization15
Financialisation and the Conceptual Framework: An update14
Environmental escalations to social inequities: Some reflections on the tumultuous state of Gaia14
Accounting and statecraft in China: Accrual accounting for effective government rather than efficient market14
Theorizing (and) the future of interdisciplinary accounting research14
Maintaining the universal banking model – A study of institutional work in the endogenization of a failed transnational post-crisis financial market reform14
Accounting as a technology of neoliberalism: The accountability role of IPSAS in Nigeria14
Professional bodies and professional closure strategies: The field of auditing for small and medium-sized enterprises in Italy☆14
Accounting for accounting’s role in the neoliberalization processes of social housing in England: A Bourdieusian perspective13
Artificial intelligence and qualitative research: The promise and perils of large language model (LLM) ‘assistance’13
Editorial Board/Publication Information13
Accounting for human rights: Evidence of due diligence in EU-listed firms’ reporting13
Editorial Board/Publication Information13
Performance contracting and moral blindness: A study of autonomy and moral responsibility in Kenyan public enterprises13
Cultural sustainability and the construction of (in)commensurability:  cultural heritage at the Roşia Montană mining site12
Special issue on Digitalization, work, and professions12
Evidence on the homogeneity of personality traits within the auditing profession12
Democratizing academic research with Artificial Intelligence: The misleading case of language12
The perils of artificial intelligence in academic publishing12
Digital technologies and accounting quantification: The emergence of two divergent knowledge templates12
A problematizing review of the financialization of living beings11
Accounting and pastoral power in Australian disability welfare reform11
Inclusive capitalism as accounting ideology: The case of integrated reporting11
Comparing perceptions of the impact of journal rankings between fields11
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