the two major professional accounting bodies to a financial/corporate/regulatory crisis necessitating the defence of the … profession's legitimacy. Design/methodology/approach – This historical paper draws on surviving primary records and secondary … sources and applies the perspectives on the dynamics of occupational groups and the legitimacy typology of Suchman. Findings …

undertaken. Integrating episodes from this country into the broader historical narrative of the professionalisation of accounting …

regulation in Australia. The paper concludes with a discussion of the professionalisation of financial planning in light of the …The financial planning industry in Australia has experienced significant reform in the last decade. This reform has not …

This contribution contends that the European Union (EU) has taken an authoritarian turn in the past crisis decade … and the European level. On the one hand, the distinct European emergency politics that characterized the euro crisis have … and rethink questions of democratic legitimacy. …