Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to put forward a “next step” research agenda for investigating accountants' professional identity. Design/methodology/approach – The visual nature of identity construction is discussed, issues of media stereotyping are revisited and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to put forward an argument for the importance of social and situational dynamics present when groups of organizational members view images. This both enriches psychoanalytic theories of the visual previously brought to bear on this topic and adds a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss how “the visual” might be conceptualised more broadly as a useful development of qualitative methodologies for organizational research. The paper introduces the articles that form the basis of this special issue of QROM , including a review...