Purpose: This paper aims to generate new research directions at the intersection of accounting, whistleblowing and publicness: defined as the attainment of public goals, interests and values. Design/methodology/approach: A problematising review is used to challenge and rethink the existing...

Grand challenges are complex, large-scale problems requiring collaborative, multidisciplinary attention. Cross-sector collaboration can potentially play a significant role in addressing these challenges by capturing the diverse vision, experience, knowledge and resources of different sectors....

This chapter focuses on the development of corporate human rights standards since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, better known as the Earth Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. One of the important agendas for this Summit was human rights (apart from the...

This paper examines a compliant clothing factory in the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh to unravel how worker exploitation is reproduced by the accounting control systems. Drawing on Bourdieu’s twofold truths of misrecognition, we illustrate how exploitation is normalised at the...