Abdullah, Aminah; Khadaroo, Iqbal; Shaikh, Junaid - In: International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting 1 (2009) 3, pp. 292-304
This paper examines the institutionalisation of extensible business reporting language (XBRL) in the USA and UK. It … between the two countries. XBRL seems to have taken deeper root in the USA than the UK primarily because of the relatively … stronger institutional 'coercive' pressures. We argue that 'normative' pressures, from the accounting profession, only play a …