Purpose: To describe the implicit epistemic flaw of “confirmation bias” and to illustrate and evaluate the threats to qualitative research trustworthiness from that bias. Design/methodology/approach: The article overviews evidence and analysis from a wide range of disciplines. The adverse...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe and critique ways in which the threats from confirmation bias have been rejected. Design/methodology/approach: Dismissals of the existence of, or threats from, confirmation bias are identified from a review of literature across a very wide range...

This paper seeks to explain the transnationalization of financial reporting by corporations. Specifically it considers how the status of International Financial Reporting Standards - constructed and issued by a private organization: the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) – changed...

This paper seeks to explain the transnationalization of financial reporting by corporations. Specifically it considers how the status of International Financial Reporting Standards - constructed and issued by a private organization: the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) – changed...