Guénin-Paracini, Henri; Malsch, Bertrand; Paillé, … - In: Accounting, Organizations and Society 39 (2014) 4, pp. 264-288
Relying on an ethnographic study conducted in the French branch of a big audit firm and using a psychodynamic perspective to interpret the collected data, we show that auditors’ sense of comfort (Pentland, 1993) arises only at the end of the audit process, and that the rest of the time, public...