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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Critical accounting as an indigenous project434
Language was always a companion of the empire211
Suffer little children: Power, boundaries and the epistemology of ignorance in accounting for Church and State50
Editorial Board/Publication Information46
Editorial Board/Publication Information46
Denunciation and resistance in post-crisis sensemaking40
Accountability and accounting in the NGO field comprising the UK and Africa – A Bordieusian analysis40
Accounting for ignorance: An investigation into corruption, immigration and the state39
How tax administration influences social justice: The relational power of accounting technologies37
Mediating ESG: Mapping individual responses to a changing field35
Accounting polycentricity in Africa: Framing an ‘accounting and development’ research agenda34
Editorial Board/Publication Information33
Popular culture and totalitarianism: Accounting for propaganda in Italy under the Fascist regime (1934–1945)31
Double-entry bookkeeping and single-entry bookkeeping: Their comparative advantages, complementarity and coexistence31
The productive accountant as (un-)wanted self: Realizing the ambivalent role of productivity measures in accountants’ identity work31
Gender Responsive Budgeting: A tool for gender equality30
Accountability for sustainability – An institutional entrepreneur as the representative of future stakeholders30
Critical reflections of accounting and social impact (Part II)29
ChatGPT and accounting in African contexts: Amplifying epistemic injustice29
Imagining cooperative tax regulation: Common origins, divergent paths29
Code as constitution: The negotiation of a uniform accounting code for U.S. railway corporations and the moral justification of stakeholder claims on wealth28
Management accountants—A gendered image28
The role of regressive sugar tax in the soft drink industry levy (SDIL): A Marxist analysis26
The translation of an extraordinary event and the role of accounts: The covid-19 case24
Editorial Board/Publication Information24
How auditors legitimize commercialism: A micro-discursive analysis24
Sophistry and high electricity prices in Australia24
Wealth taxes and the post-COVID future of the state22
Quo vadis? The future of interdisciplinary accounting research22
Beyond conventional financialization: Intersectional insights and Indigenous responses to financial inequality in the UK21
A sticky chocolate problem: Impression management and counter accounts in the shaping of corporate image21
Symbols in wood as a means of reciprocity: Accounting and social cohesion in pluralistic economies20
The quid pro quo of charity: accounting, power and social positioning19
Editorial Board/Publication Information19
Intellectual engagements of accounting academics: The ‘forecasted losses' intervention18
The Chinese accounting profession in the People’s Republic: A preliminary understanding from an oral history perspective18
Social investment innovation and the ‘social turn’ of neoliberal finance18
Media framing in Wirecard’s fraud scandal: Facts, failures, and spying fraudster fantasies18
Therapeutic governance: The art of mediating shame and blame and quasi-judicial pragmatic technologies in Indonesian government auditor-auditee engagements18
Diversity, dialogic pedagogy and intersubjectivity in the classroom: Contributions from the Global South17
Subject, method and praxis – Conducting critical studies in accounting research17
Constructing housing literacy through financial literacy17
Is critique sustainable? A commentary on Bigoni and Mohammed17
Editorial Board/Publication Information17
The silent resistance: An ethnographic study of the use of silence to resist accounting and managerialization16
A stakeholder salience perspective on performance and management control systems in non-profit organisations16
Accounting for human rights: Evidence of due diligence in EU-listed firms’ reporting15
Performance contracting and moral blindness: A study of autonomy and moral responsibility in Kenyan public enterprises15
Working apart: Remote working and social bonding in the Big Four audit firms15
Maintaining the universal banking model – A study of institutional work in the endogenization of a failed transnational post-crisis financial market reform14
Professional bodies and professional closure strategies: The field of auditing for small and medium-sized enterprises in Italy☆14
Financialisation and the Conceptual Framework: An update14
Critical accounting scholarship and social movements: The case of rail privatisation in Britain14
Environmental escalations to social inequities: Some reflections on the tumultuous state of Gaia13
Accounting and statecraft in China: Accrual accounting for effective government rather than efficient market13
Editorial Board/Publication Information13
Artificial intelligence and qualitative research: The promise and perils of large language model (LLM) ‘assistance’13
Fiscal decentralization in the nude: Discursive struggles and the stalling of its implementation in Jamaica13
Theorizing (and) the future of interdisciplinary accounting research13
Accounting as a technology of neoliberalism: The accountability role of IPSAS in Nigeria13
Periphery and centre in comparative perspective: Opportunities for accounting praxis13
Evidence on the homogeneity of personality traits within the auditing profession12
Cultural sustainability and the construction of (in)commensurability:  cultural heritage at the Roşia Montană mining site12
Digital technologies and accounting quantification: The emergence of two divergent knowledge templates12
Accounting for accounting’s role in the neoliberalization processes of social housing in England: A Bourdieusian perspective12
Special issue on Digitalization, work, and professions12
The perils of artificial intelligence in academic publishing12
Editorial Board/Publication Information12
Comparing perceptions of the impact of journal rankings between fields11
Patriarchy persists: Experiences of barriers to women's career progression in Italian accounting academia11
A problematizing review of the financialization of living beings11
Incremental improvement: Evaluating the emancipatory impact of public country-by-country reporting11
Accounting and pastoral power in Australian disability welfare reform11
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