Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to put forward a “next step” research agenda for investigating accountants' professional identity. Design/methodology/approach – The visual nature of identity construction is discussed, issues of media stereotyping are revisited and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to put forward an argument for the importance of social and situational dynamics present when groups of organizational members view images. This both enriches psychoanalytic theories of the visual previously brought to bear on this topic and adds a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a commentary on Professor Lee D. Parker's article on photo-elicitation. Design/methodology/approach – Two exciting possibilities addressed in Parker's paper are discussed: the potential of archival photographs to transcend their status as...

Purpose – The main objective of this paper is to discuss how photography might help give research participants a louder voice in (qualitative) critical accounting and management research, enabling their multiple voices to be better represented/performed through the technique of “native image...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a commentary on Professor Lee D. Parker's article on photo‐elicitation. Design/methodology/approach – Two exciting possibilities addressed in Parker's paper are discussed: the potential of archival photographs to transcend their status as...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the intersection of professional values and career roles in accountants’ presentations of their professional identity, in the face of enduring stereotyping of the accounting role. Design/methodology/approach This study presents a qualitative...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss participant‐led photography as a response to the author's need for an “aesthetic approach” to ethnography during fieldwork, including the importance of an embodied, sensory orientation to ethnography in organizational contexts....