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Counter-accounting and social transformation: Yaṉangu way
Ellie Norris, Shawgat Kutubi, Steven Greenland, Ruth WallaceThis study explores citizen activism in the articulation of a politicised counter-account of Aboriginal rights. It aims to uncover the enabling factors for a successful challenge…
Decoding corruption in Brazilian construction multinationals
Tania Barboza, Angela Da RochaThis study aims to investigate whether firms involved in a major corruption scandal, with broad ramifications across several emerging and advanced markets, design the content of…
Politics of fiscal discipline: counter-conducting the World Bank's public financial management reforms
John De-Clerk Azure, Chandana Alawattage, Sarah George LauwoThe World Bank-sponsored public financial management reforms attempt to instil fiscal discipline through techno-managerial packages. Taking Ghana's integrated financial management…
Alternative accounts, rivers and dams: the case of the Green Earth Volunteers’ river project
Sisi Zou, Catriona PaiseyThe purpose of this paper is to examine the alternative accounts produced by Green Earth Volunteers (GEV), a Chinese environmental non-governmental organisation, over a 10-year…
Sharia boards, managerial strategies and governance practices in Islamic banks: a Goffmanesque discourse
Yusuf Karbhari, Abdelhafid Benamraoui, Ahmad Fahmi Sheikh HassanThe study applies Erving Goffman's (1974) “frame analysis” principles to examine how Sharia governance is practiced in Islamic banks and explores the interaction and strategies…
We set them up for failure: performativity, corporate reporting and decolonisation
Ellie Norris, Shawgat Kutubi, Steven Greenland, Ruth WallaceThis research aims to examine the performativity of corporate reports as an example of an accounting inscription that can frame the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres…
The picturesque roots of impression management: framing, Claude glass and “rose”-tinted lens?
Karen McBride, Jill Frances Atkins, Barry Colin AtkinsThis paper explores the way in which industrial pollution has been expressed in the narrative accounts of nature, landscape and industry by William Gilpin in his 18th-century…
Cracking a brick in the master's house: counter practices as counter-accounts of difference and survival
Nathalie Clavijo, Ludivine Perray-Redslob, Emmanouela MandalakiThis paper aims to examine how an alternative accounting system developed by a marginalised group of women enables them to counter oppressive systems built at the intersections of…
Umbrella protectors? Analysing valuing, hybridity and compromises for Chinese middle managers
Chao Ren, Hui Situ, Gillian Maree VestyThis paper examines the ways in which Chinese university middle managers evaluate subordinate performance in response to the Chinese Double First-Class University Plan, a national…
Corporate sustainability reporting and information infrastructure
Indrit Troshani, Nick RowbottomInformation infrastructures can enable or constrain how companies pursue their visions of sustainability reporting and help address the urgent need to understand how corporate…
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- Prof James Guthrie
- Prof Lee Parker