Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal: Volume 24 Issue 3

Trying to operationalise typologies of the spectacle: A literature review and a case study

Shahzad Uddin, Bernard Gumb, Stephen Kasumba

This paper aims to focus on building an interpretive framework for understanding accounting practices and changes, drawing on the situationist concept of the “spectacle”.

Impression management and retrospective sense‐making in corporate narratives: A social psychology perspective

Doris M. Merkl‐Davies, Niamh M. Brennan, Stuart J. McLeay

Prior accounting research views impression management predominantly though the lens of economics. Drawing on social psychology research, this paper seeks to provide a…

Organizational identity and management accounting change

Gun Abrahamsson, Hans Englund, Jonas Gerdin

This paper aims to examine how and why management accounting practices are linked to an organization's identity and identity discrepancies.

From care of the self to care for the other: neglected aspects of Foucault's late work

Katarzyna Kosmala, John Francis McKernan

This conceptual paper aims to elucidate and explore the implications for critical accounting and management of some of the ethical dimensions of Foucault's thought, hitherto…

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