Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
AAAJ Literature and Insights 36.3 Editorial98
Exploring the historical roots of environmental and ecological accounting from the dawn of human consciousness91
New boundaries for sustainability accounting? A case study of multi-entity accounting and reporting in the agrifood sector69
Accounting for the Nazi Aryanisation of German banks63
Resisting accounting in the name of discipline61
Coordination in a not-for-profit organisation during the COVID-19 pandemic: organisational sensemaking during planning meetings59
The development and application of a decision-useful measure of environmental best practice for the mining industry56
Can “sin industries” prove their legitimacy through CSR reporting? A study of UK tobacco and gambling companies54
A failure of accountancy professionalisation: corporate financial reporting and accounting knowledge52
Impression management at board meetings: accountability in public and in private50
Cracking a brick in the master's house: counter practices as counter-accounts of difference and survival44
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024): reflections in memory of her work and life42
Why does the European football market need a revolution?41
A reflection on contemporary myths of women's football: a historical analysis41
Accounting, finance and conflict in football arenas41
Navigational space for the absence of sustainability assurance in China38
IT-supported accountability for sustainability in connected city societies: the interplay of integrated information systems and public corporate governance codes38
From the abacus to enterprise resource planning: is blockchain the next big accounting tool?35
Accountability for responsibility: a case study of a more intelligent enactment of accountability34
Exploring accountability of Australia and New Zealand's temporary labour mobility programmes in Samoa using a talanoa approach31
Methodological Insights Accounting talk: developing conversation analysis in accounting research30
Researching race, accounting and accountability: past, present and future25
Emerging from the shadow of the Soviet Union: the case of the accountancy field in Latvia25
Playing to the audience? Multilevel interactions between stakeholders and institutions around CSR in Bangladesh24
Unintended use of a calculative practice: conflicting institutional logics in the Norwegian fishing industry23
The unaccounted effects of digital transformation: participatory accountability in a humanitarian organisation22
Rainbow numbers21
Framing the use of performance management in universities: the paradox of business disciplines21
Stigma management: a counter-accounting of child labour and environmental issues in the mining sector18
Accounting for Indigenous cultural connections to land: insights from two Indigenous groups of Australia18
Blending logics with performance management systems in an NGO setting17
A place in accounting17
The editor and the board member: in a beautiful Pea Green boat17
University sustainability performance as a catalyst for societal change17
Impact valuations in social finance: emic and polyvocal stakeholder accounts15
“It is coming home to Rome” – social engagement and creativity in reactions to England national football team losing Euro 202015
Decoding corruption in Brazilian construction multinationals15
Beyond persuasive representations of facts: “figuring out” what sustainable value creation means in practice15
Accountability and music: accounting, emotions and responses to the 1913 concert for Giuseppe Verdi15
Accounting talks – how operations managers nuance their frontstage performance with backstage negotiations14
AAAJ Literature and Insights Resist to exist in accounting14
Seeking transparency makes one blind: how to rethink disclosure, account for nature and make corporations sustainable14
Exploring dynamic duality between formal and non-formal accountability processes in a public services context13
Methodological Insights: This is not an experiment: using vignettes in qualitative accounting research12
Accounting to promote ethical tolerance: the case of the Italian prostitution model (1860)12
LGBTIQ+ staff and shifting client power within professional services firms12
Reshaping an issue-based field: assessing the impact of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) on the global development aid agenda12
Technological innovation and the co-production of accounting services in small accounting firms12
Accountability and accounting for fisheries – six decades of reporting by the Electricity Supply Board of Ireland, 1935–199311
The office as a site of management control: an historical film elicitation study11
Blockchain in accounting research: current trends and emerging topics11
Coordinating assemblages: accounting for a novel disaster11
The contronymity of project accounting for performing the relevance of project outcomes11
Exploring the “theory is king” thesis in accounting research: the case of actor-network theory11
Accounting and gender equality in (times of) crisis: toward an accounting that accommodates for emotional work?10
The accounting profession is undergoing a change10
Adaptive framing of sustainability in CEO letters9
AAAJ Literature and Insights The accountant in her bed9
Accounting for digital promises: restoring and transforming promissory narratives9
Temporal structuring and the improvisation of management control in palm oil processing9
Safeguarding the unknown: performance measurement, academic agency and the meaning of research quality in practice9
The embedded construction of price fairness evaluations: a case study of Air Greenland9
Gender construction and the invisibility of women’s accounting activities: the All Nations’ Fair of 18959
Material flow cost accounting in Vietnam: a multi-level exploration9
The contested nature of third-sector organisations9
Review Papers Examining accountability in relation to local football communities9
Model of integrated reporting “concept in practice” in the light of pragmatic constructivist paradigm: case studies of life science companies9
“On duty in pursuit of the natives”: accounting and truth-telling about Australia's frontier wars9
Professional judgement in accounting and Aristotelian practical wisdom9
Boundary objects: sustainability reporting and the production of organizational stability8
Toward an omniopticon: the potential of blockchain technology toward influencing vulnerable populations in contested markets8
Reporting controversial issues in controversial industries8
Emails: When management control works too well …8
Paternalism as a long-term strategy of a management control system8
What trees taught me about Covid-19: on relational accounting and other magic8
Digitalization in accounting–Warmly embraced or coldly ignored?8
Indigenous directorship pathways through transformative leadership: a content analysis of reconciliation action plans (RAPs)8
The role of emerging technologies in shaping the future of accounting8
Accounting, tax compliance and New Zealand indigenous entrepreneurs: a Bourdieusian perspective8
The commodification of education: an academic dilemma8
Carbon toolmaking: responding to multiple interacting logics in carbon management7
Envisioning legitimacy: visual dimensions of NGO annual reports7
Open ledger sustainability accounting for community forests: the case of Qingshui river society of southwest China in the 18th-19th centuries7
The lived experiences of South African Black accountants within the framework of the chartered accountancy profession sector code7
The spread of sportswashing within top-flight football: a discussion of its underpinnings, mechanisms and probable consequences7
Accountability in permissioned blockchains: through the ledger, the code and the people7
Epistolizing accountability: a critical exploration of INGO annual report leaders' letters7
Quality management adoption and management accounting change in a sub-Saharan African firm7
Disputed interpretations and active strategies of resistance during an audit regulatory debate7
Children, imagination and outer space exploration: implications for space accountability systems7
Accounting and racial violence in the postbellum American South7
The final frontier? Mechanisms to stimulate investment in the commercial space travel industry7
AAAJ Literature and Insights: The fire: love for research7
Accountability and the metaverse: unaccounted digital worlds between techwashing mechanisms and new emerging meanings7
Hybridity in a hotel chain: designing a package of controls to sustain a hybrid mission7
Boundary work at the margins of politics and auditing: rationalising advertising probity in Ontario6
A car wash: post-truth politics, Petrobras and ethics of the real6
Politics of fiscal discipline: counter-conducting the World Bank's public financial management reforms6
Corporate accountability during crisis in the digitized era6
Practical and theoretical judgment in data-driven financial due diligence6
The #MeToo legacy and “the Collective Us”: conceptualising accountability for sexual misconduct at work6
It's a gift – Samuel Pepys and Sir William Warren, an account of gifts, bribes and kickbacks6
Who cares? These are (not) my problems!6
Shareholder primacy or stakeholder pluralism? Environmental shareholder proposals and board responses6
Understanding beneficiary evaluative capacity within nonprofit organisations through an immanent perspective6
Towards a future-oriented accountability: accounting for the future through Earth Observation data6
Being left behind: disclosure strategies to manage the Juukan Gorge cave blast6
Fraud mitigation: a hope for United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 20306
A well-rounded life: the story of Eva West – pioneer accountant, philanthropist and environmentalist6
Introduction to special issue on ethnographies of accountability6
‘Be a game changer and keep the ball rolling’: exploring linkages between football clubs, charitable foundations and doing good6
The COVID-19 pandemic: opportunity or challenge for climate change risk disclosure?6
Literature and Insights Editorial6
Constructing an accountability regime for proxy advisors: an organizational roles perspective6
COVID-19 and personal finance5
Blockchain technology design in accounting: Game changer to tackle fraud or technological fairy tale?5
Addressing systemic social and environmental challenges: the role of accounting and accountability practices5
Green governmentality and climate change risk management: the case of a regulatory reform in Bangladesh5
The role of the professional association in the translation of accrual accounting in the Sri Lankan public sector5
Tone at the top, corporate irresponsibility and the Enron emails5
On the legitimacy and apoliticality of public sector performance audit: exploratory evidence from Canada and Denmark5
Publisher’s Note5
Standard setting in times of technological change: accounting for cryptocurrency holdings5
Displacing uncomfortable carbon accounting knowledge: how avoided emission models justify the status quo5
Alternative accounts, rivers and dams: the case of the Green Earth Volunteers’ river project5
Understanding absences and ambiguities of Post-decision Project Evaluation in the UK's PPPs: drawing from the sociology of ignorance5
The exercise of informal influence through intra-organizational impression management5
Beyond replacement and absorption: exploring integrative pathways to accounting colonisation5
On the accounting implications of the dilemma: who speaks for nature?5
Communication, disclosure and power games: a figurational approach to understanding CPA Australia's corporate governance scandal5
Co-construction of performance indicators for a circular city and its relation to a local action net5
Outcome payer perspectives on social impact bonds as mediating instruments5
Literature and Insights Editorial5
Contavidade5
A football debate: the future of football accountability research5
Responding to employee-based race inequalities in National Health Service (England): accountability and the Workforce Race Equality Standard5
Accountability, emergency and liberty during COVID-19 in the UK 2020–224
Methodological insights: interview quotations in accounting research4
Audit society, organisational response and (de-)coupling: an Italian story4
Make China great again: the strategies of Confucian accountants4
The interaction of hierarchical and socializing accountability and the emergence of intelligent accountability in a classroom – a critical analysis4
Methodological Insights “Materiality is …”: sensemaking and sensegiving through storytelling4
Positioning Prem Sikka’s academic activism in the third space4
“Football is war” – FIFA's reactions to a real war and the response of football fans4
Orchestration and consolidation in corporate sustainability reporting. The legacy of the Corporate Reporting Dialogue4
SOS: accountability 2021 September4
What place is this?4
The making of a multiplicity of overlapping controls4
Literature and Insights Editorial4
Climate apartheid: the failures of accountability and climate justice4
Grassroots accountability: the practical and symbolic aspects of performance4
Umbrella protectors? Analysing valuing, hybridity and compromises for Chinese middle managers4
Environmental accounting and state power in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1537–1621)4
Believe, resist and conquer4
The special thing of clubs in the German football Bundesliga – about the legal forms of the clubs and the resulting consequences4
Understanding accountability in blockchain systems3
The value of research activities “other than” publishing articles: reflections on an experimental workshop series3
Scaling and controlling talent development in high-intensity organizations: the case of a Swedish football club3
Interventionist research in management accounting: promoting engagement through face-to-face dialogues3
Monetization of politics and public procurement in Ghana3
Listen to their silent cries3
Do accounting disclosures help or hinder individual donors’ trust repair after negative events?3
Management control practices and pragmatism3
On affect and accounting inscriptions: a study of fair value in the making3
Field-configuring events and the failure to standardise accounting for carbon emissions3
To boldly go where no one has gone before: a critical realist approach to space accounting3
The professional identity of accountants – an empirical analysis of job advertisements3
AAAJ Literature and Insights: Voices of resistance3
The use of management controls to progress emancipation3
Identity performances on professional accounting association magazine covers3
Oh, not again!3
(Dys)functionality of intentions or outcomes? Performance funding of Danish schools3
The anatomy of tragedy: Starbucks as a politics of displacement3
Self, ethics, morality and accountability: a case of a public university3
Politics of accounting evidence in privatising telecommunications in Sri Lanka3
When audit confronts blockchain3
Calculating a life: classification, valuation and compensation in the British abolition of slavery3
Literature and Insights Editorial3
Auditors' sensemaking of other comprehensive income through metaphors3
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