Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Papers
(The TQCC of Critical Perspectives on Accounting is 10. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
ESG practices and the cost of debt: Evidence from EU countries324
Connecting the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing and calls for ‘harmonisation’ of sustainability reporting164
A sticky chocolate problem: Impression management and counter accounts in the shaping of corporate image36
On the centrality of peripheral research and the dangers of tight boundary gatekeeping35
A profession in peril? University corporatization, performance measurement and the sustainability of accounting academia34
Sustainability performance reporting: A technocratic shadowing and silencing32
On crisis and emergency: Is it time to rethink long-term environmental accounting?31
Behind the World Bank’s ringing declarations of “social accountability”: Ghana’s public financial management reform31
How auditors legitimize commercialism: A micro-discursive analysis29
Bourdieu, strategy and the field of power27
Social movement activists’ conceptions of political action and counter-accounting through a critical dialogic accounting and accountability lens26
An ecological critique of accounting: The circular economy and COVID-1926
Accounting and development in Africa25
Fighting or supporting corruption? The role of public sector audit organizations in Brazil24
The perils of artificial intelligence in academic publishing24
Towards a conceptual framework of beneficiary accountability by NGOs: An Indonesian case study24
Accountability and accounting in the NGO field comprising the UK and Africa – A Bordieusian analysis24
Sustainability at stake during COVID-19: Exploring the role of accounting in addressing environmental crises23
Not at our table: Stakeholder exclusion and ant/agonistic engagements23
Government accounting reforms in Sub-Saharan African countries and the selective ignorance of the epistemic community: A competing logics perspective22
Hillsborough: The fight for accountability22
Gendering merit: How the discourse of merit in diversity disclosures supports the gendered status quo on Canadian corporate boards22
Making the invisibles visible: Including animals in sustainability (and) accounting22
Gender Responsive Budgeting: A tool for gender equality22
Financialisation and the Conceptual Framework: An update21
How the colonial legacy frames state audit institutions in Benin that fail to curb corruption21
Instrumentalism and the publish-or-perish regime20
Accounting and pastoral power in Australian disability welfare reform18
The boundary of the ‘economic’: Financial accounting, corporate ‘imaginaries’ and human sentience18
Auditing in the public interest: Reforming the profession by building on the strengths of the existing accounting firms18
Sustainability reporting practices and their social impact to NGO funding in Italy18
Corporate human rights performance and moral power: A study of retail MNCs’ supply chains in Bangladesh17
A Luhmannian perspective on strategy: Strategy as paradox and meta-communication17
Accounting research boundaries, multiple centers and academic empathy17
Grounded accountability and Indigenous self-determination17
Environmental escalations to social inequities: Some reflections on the tumultuous state of Gaia16
Beyond intentionality in accounting regulation: Habitual strategizing by the IASB15
Accounting for the value expectations of customers: Re-imagining the Integrated Reporting initiative15
From unemployment to self-employment: Can enterprise policy intensify the risks of poverty?15
Contextualising and critically theorising corporate social responsibility reporting: Dynamics of the late Mubarak Era in Egypt14
Accountabilities, invisibilities and silences in a Danish slave trading company on the Gold Coast in the early 18th century14
A critical accounting project for Latin America? Objects of knowledge or ways of knowing14
A structuration theory perspective on the interplay between strategy and accounting: Unpacking social continuity and transformation14
Accounting as a dehumanizing force in colonial rhetoric: Quantifying native peoples in annual reports14
Accounting, Ideological and Political Work and Chinese multinational operations: A neo-Gramscian perspective14
A stakeholder salience perspective on performance and management control systems in non-profit organisations13
Bonding forged in “auditing hell”: The emotional qualities of Big Four auditors13
E-commerce and labour tax avoidance13
Debt, accounting, and the transformation of individuals into financially responsible neoliberal subjects13
Avoiding the accountability ‘sham-ritual’: An agonistic approach to beneficiaries’ participation in evaluation within nonprofit organisations13
The Queering Accounting Manifesto13
“Free”-to-play game: Governing the everyday life of digital popular culture13
A foundation for ‘ethical capital’: The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and Integrated Reporting13
Charting the development of the Egyptian accounting profession (1946–2016): An analysis of the State-Profession dynamics13
Yield and the city: Swedish public housing and the political significance of changed accounting practices13
Putting the patient first? The story of a decoupled hospital management quality initiative12
Data breaches in the age of surveillance capitalism: Do disclosures have a new role to play?12
Taking critical dialogic accountability into the field: Engaging contestation around microfinance and women’s empowerment11
True transparency or mere decoupling? The study of selective disclosure in sustainability reporting11
The emancipatory potential of counter accounting: A Žižekian critique11
Female leaders as ‘Superwomen’: Post-global financial crisis media framing of women and leadership in investment banking in UK print media 2014–201611
Shedding light on alternative interdisciplinary accounting research through journal editors’ perspectives and an analysis of recent publications11
Forming mixed-type inter-organisational relationships in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of institutional logics, social identities and institutionally embedded agency11
On valuing (m)other nature in times of climate crises – A reflection on the non and nom of accounting for (m)other nature11
Analysing corporate governance and accountability practices from an African neo-patrimonialism perspective: Insights from Kenya11
Comparing perceptions of the impact of journal rankings between fields11
Centre-staging beneficiaries in charity accountability: Insights from an Islamic post-secular perspective10
The role of accounting and accountants in the oil subsidy corruption scandal in Nigeria10
The appearance of community logics in management accounting and control: Evidence from an Egyptian sugar beet village10
Accounting as a technology of neoliberalism: The accountability role of IPSAS in Nigeria10
Social movements, identity and disruption in organizational fields: Accounting for farm animal welfare10
Beautiful SWAN, or ugly duckling? The attempt to reduce gender inequality by the Society of Women Accountants of Nigeria10
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