-enabled networks – such as social media and big data – and the accounting function. In doing so, it links the contents of an unfolding … area research with the papers published in this special issue of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal . Design …

Purpose – The accounting regulation literature has recently devoted a significant degree of attention to delineating … the roles of accounting firms as key professional actors in the transnational policy arena. Such a heightened level of … players on the transnational governance scene. Design/methodology/approach – The accounting regulation literature has recently …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the role played by accounting in managing an early nineteenth … This paper identifies a number of roles played by accounting in the management of the lunatic asylum studied. Most … importantly, information which formed the basis of accounting reports was used to describe, classify and give visibility and …

to accounting, auditing and accountability researchers. The paper also provides an overview of the other contributions in … this accounting, auditing and accountability special issue. Design/methodology/approach This paper provides a contemporary … accounting scholars. Research limitations/implications This is a review of a limited literature. Empirical research and a more …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review and present a contemporary perspective on interdisciplinary accounting … interdisciplinary accounting research project in the public services needs to do more in terms of moving outside the disciplines of … accounting scholarship. Shifting to a mode of knowledge production that addresses wicked problems requires the interdisciplinary …

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to explore the current and historical state of accounting for biodiversity in …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of accounting information in new product development (NPD …/methodology/approach A field study of the manufacturing division of a large group was conducted which explored how managers use accounting … These findings suggest that the managers’ use of accounting information is determined as much by the subjective nature of …

authors contribute to an emergent stream of literature that is investigating accounting implications derived from social media …

politics. The authors close the paper with a discussion of the role that accounting for human rights can play in such a … democratic politics, and by urging, on that basis, the critical accounting community to cautiously embrace the opportunity … on political theory to the problems of critical accounting and in particular the critical potential of accounting and …

the impact of this for accounting research. The paper also provides an overview of the contributions advanced by the other … papers in this special issue of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal (AAAJ ). Design/methodology/approach This … structuration theory and considers the relevance of these issues to accounting research. Findings The paper highlights that there is …