Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the shifting nature of governance reforms, both at global and national levels, in the increasingly commercialised game of cricket. The authors explore the inter-relationship and linkages between governance and commercialism, and in the process,...

In recent years there appears to have been a veritable boom in the provision of 'quality audits' - that is, audits of organizations' production processes and management systems. Despite the rising significance of this international audit movement affecting hundreds of thousands of organizations...

This paper critically reviews the evolution of financial reporting in the banking sector with specific reference to the reporting of market risk and the growing utilisation of the measure known as Value at Risk (VaR). The paper investigates the process by which VaR became 'institutionalised'....

The growing institutional significance of impact factors and journal rankings currently stands alongside serious concerns about the scale and distorting effects of the practice of coercive journal self-citation. Survey-based studies have highlighted journals suspected of such coercion but there...

This paper reviews the way in which auditing issues have been raised and addressed during the credit crunch and developing global financial crisis. Analysis is based on a review of the academic auditing literature, regulatory and audit reports, together with articles from the financial press....