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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
New boundaries for sustainability accounting? A case study of multi-entity accounting and reporting in the agrifood sector99
AAAJ Literature and Insights 36.3 Editorial93
Exploring the historical roots of environmental and ecological accounting from the dawn of human consciousness88
Coordination in a not-for-profit organisation during the COVID-19 pandemic: organisational sensemaking during planning meetings69
Accounting for the Nazi Aryanisation of German banks60
Resisting accounting in the name of discipline58
“On the same wavelength”: reconciling competing logics in tax client relationships57
A reflection on contemporary myths of women's football: a historical analysis52
Cracking a brick in the master's house: counter practices as counter-accounts of difference and survival52
Accounting, finance and conflict in football arenas50
A failure of accountancy professionalisation: corporate financial reporting and accounting knowledge49
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024): reflections in memory of her work and life43
The development and application of a decision-useful measure of environmental best practice for the mining industry41
Impression management at board meetings: accountability in public and in private41
Why does the European football market need a revolution?40
Can “sin industries” prove their legitimacy through CSR reporting? A study of UK tobacco and gambling companies40
IT-supported accountability for sustainability in connected city societies: the interplay of integrated information systems and public corporate governance codes37
Unintended use of a calculative practice: conflicting institutional logics in the Norwegian fishing industry36
Navigational space for the absence of sustainability assurance in China35
Researching race, accounting and accountability: past, present and future34
Accountability for responsibility: a case study of a more intelligent enactment of accountability30
Playing to the audience? Multilevel interactions between stakeholders and institutions around CSR in Bangladesh29
Emerging from the shadow of the Soviet Union: the case of the accountancy field in Latvia24
Exploring accountability of Australia and New Zealand's temporary labour mobility programmes in Samoa using a talanoa approach23
Methodological Insights Accounting talk: developing conversation analysis in accounting research23
From the abacus to enterprise resource planning: is blockchain the next big accounting tool?22
The unaccounted effects of digital transformation: participatory accountability in a humanitarian organisation22
University sustainability performance as a catalyst for societal change22
The editor and the board member: in a beautiful Pea Green boat21
Rainbow numbers21
Accounting for Indigenous cultural connections to land: insights from two Indigenous groups of Australia19
Blending logics with performance management systems in an NGO setting18
Framing the use of performance management in universities: the paradox of business disciplines18
Stigma management: a counter-accounting of child labour and environmental issues in the mining sector17
A place in accounting17
Beyond persuasive representations of facts: “figuring out” what sustainable value creation means in practice17
AAAJ Literature and Insights Resist to exist in accounting16
Seeking transparency makes one blind: how to rethink disclosure, account for nature and make corporations sustainable16
Impact valuations in social finance: emic and polyvocal stakeholder accounts15
Decoding corruption in Brazilian construction multinationals15
“It is coming home to Rome” – social engagement and creativity in reactions to England national football team losing Euro 202015
Accountability and music: accounting, emotions and responses to the 1913 concert for Giuseppe Verdi15
The office as a site of management control: an historical film elicitation study14
Accounting talks – how operations managers nuance their frontstage performance with backstage negotiations14
Coordinating assemblages: accounting for a novel disaster13
Exploring the “theory is king” thesis in accounting research: the case of actor-network theory13
Technological innovation and the co-production of accounting services in small accounting firms12
Methodological Insights: This is not an experiment: using vignettes in qualitative accounting research12
Reshaping an issue-based field: assessing the impact of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) on the global development aid agenda12
LGBTIQ+ staff and shifting client power within professional services firms12
The accounting profession is undergoing a change11
Blockchain in accounting research: current trends and emerging topics11
Review Papers Examining accountability in relation to local football communities11
Exploring dynamic duality between formal and non-formal accountability processes in a public services context11
The embedded construction of price fairness evaluations: a case study of Air Greenland11
Accounting to promote ethical tolerance: the case of the Italian prostitution model (1860)11
The contested nature of third-sector organisations10
Safeguarding the unknown: performance measurement, academic agency and the meaning of research quality in practice10
AAAJ Literature and Insights The accountant in her bed10
Model of integrated reporting “concept in practice” in the light of pragmatic constructivist paradigm: case studies of life science companies10
The contronymity of project accounting for performing the relevance of project outcomes9
Adaptive framing of sustainability in CEO letters9
Accounting for digital promises: restoring and transforming promissory narratives9
Material flow cost accounting in Vietnam: a multi-level exploration9
Gender construction and the invisibility of women’s accounting activities: the All Nations’ Fair of 18959
“On duty in pursuit of the natives”: accounting and truth-telling about Australia's frontier wars9
Digitalization in accounting–Warmly embraced or coldly ignored?9
Professional judgement in accounting and Aristotelian practical wisdom9
Accountability and accounting for fisheries – six decades of reporting by the Electricity Supply Board of Ireland, 1935–19939
Accounting and gender equality in (times of) crisis: toward an accounting that accommodates for emotional work?9
Accounting, tax compliance and New Zealand indigenous entrepreneurs: a Bourdieusian perspective9
Temporal structuring and the improvisation of management control in palm oil processing8
Paternalism as a long-term strategy of a management control system8
Carbon toolmaking: responding to multiple interacting logics in carbon management8
The role of emerging technologies in shaping the future of accounting8
Reporting controversial issues in controversial industries8
Emails: When management control works too well …8
The final frontier? Mechanisms to stimulate investment in the commercial space travel industry8
What trees taught me about Covid-19: on relational accounting and other magic8
Toward an omniopticon: the potential of blockchain technology toward influencing vulnerable populations in contested markets8
The commodification of education: an academic dilemma8
Corporate accountability during crisis in the digitized era7
Accountability in permissioned blockchains: through the ledger, the code and the people7
Open ledger sustainability accounting for community forests: the case of Qingshui river society of southwest China in the 18th-19th centuries7
Boundary objects: sustainability reporting and the production of organizational stability7
AAAJ Literature and Insights: The fire: love for research7
Accountability and the metaverse: unaccounted digital worlds between techwashing mechanisms and new emerging meanings7
The COVID-19 pandemic: opportunity or challenge for climate change risk disclosure?7
Indigenous directorship pathways through transformative leadership: a content analysis of reconciliation action plans (RAPs)7
Accounting and racial violence in the postbellum American South7
Quality management adoption and management accounting change in a sub-Saharan African firm7
Understanding beneficiary evaluative capacity within nonprofit organisations through an immanent perspective7
Hybridity in a hotel chain: designing a package of controls to sustain a hybrid mission7
Envisioning legitimacy: visual dimensions of NGO annual reports7
Epistolizing accountability: a critical exploration of INGO annual report leaders' letters7
Children, imagination and outer space exploration: implications for space accountability systems7
Practical and theoretical judgment in data-driven financial due diligence6
Fraud mitigation: a hope for United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 20306
Who cares? These are (not) my problems!6
A car wash: post-truth politics, Petrobras and ethics of the real6
Introduction to special issue on ethnographies of accountability6
The spread of sportswashing within top-flight football: a discussion of its underpinnings, mechanisms and probable consequences6
The #MeToo legacy and “the Collective Us”: conceptualising accountability for sexual misconduct at work6
Literature and Insights Editorial6
Being left behind: disclosure strategies to manage the Juukan Gorge cave blast6
The lived experiences of South African Black accountants within the framework of the chartered accountancy profession sector code6
Politics of fiscal discipline: counter-conducting the World Bank's public financial management reforms6
Disputed interpretations and active strategies of resistance during an audit regulatory debate6
‘Be a game changer and keep the ball rolling’: exploring linkages between football clubs, charitable foundations and doing good6
Constructing an accountability regime for proxy advisors: an organizational roles perspective6
Blockchain in the accounting, auditing and accountability fields: a bibliometric and coding analysis6
Towards a future-oriented accountability: accounting for the future through Earth Observation data6
Accounting for the “transcendent self”: spirituality, narcissism, testimony and gift6
Shareholder primacy or stakeholder pluralism? Environmental shareholder proposals and board responses6
How being a former/current executive impacts directors’ boardroom dynamics and board role execution6
Co-construction of performance indicators for a circular city and its relation to a local action net5
On the legitimacy and apoliticality of public sector performance audit: exploratory evidence from Canada and Denmark5
Publisher’s Note5
Communication, disclosure and power games: a figurational approach to understanding CPA Australia's corporate governance scandal5
Blockchain technology design in accounting: Game changer to tackle fraud or technological fairy tale?5
Displacing uncomfortable carbon accounting knowledge: how avoided emission models justify the status quo5
The exercise of informal influence through intra-organizational impression management5
Literature and Insights Editorial5
A football debate: the future of football accountability research5
Addressing systemic social and environmental challenges: the role of accounting and accountability practices5
COVID-19 and personal finance5
COVID-19 and global clothing retailers' responsibility to vulnerable workers: NGO counter-rhetoric5
Tone at the top, corporate irresponsibility and the Enron emails5
Contavidade5
Alternative accounts, rivers and dams: the case of the Green Earth Volunteers’ river project5
On the accounting implications of the dilemma: who speaks for nature?5
Responding to employee-based race inequalities in National Health Service (England): accountability and the Workforce Race Equality Standard5
Boundary work at the margins of politics and auditing: rationalising advertising probity in Ontario5
A well-rounded life: the story of Eva West – pioneer accountant, philanthropist and environmentalist5
It's a gift – Samuel Pepys and Sir William Warren, an account of gifts, bribes and kickbacks5
Standard setting in times of technological change: accounting for cryptocurrency holdings5
Outcome payer perspectives on social impact bonds as mediating instruments5
Understanding absences and ambiguities of Post-decision Project Evaluation in the UK's PPPs: drawing from the sociology of ignorance5
Beyond replacement and absorption: exploring integrative pathways to accounting colonisation5
Green governmentality and climate change risk management: the case of a regulatory reform in Bangladesh4
Climate apartheid: the failures of accountability and climate justice4
SOS: accountability 2021 September4
The interaction of hierarchical and socializing accountability and the emergence of intelligent accountability in a classroom – a critical analysis4
What place is this?4
To boldly go where no one has gone before: a critical realist approach to space accounting4
“Football is war” – FIFA's reactions to a real war and the response of football fans4
Grassroots accountability: the practical and symbolic aspects of performance4
Make China great again: the strategies of Confucian accountants4
Audit society, organisational response and (de-)coupling: an Italian story4
Methodological insights: interview quotations in accounting research4
Literature and Insights Editorial4
Umbrella protectors? Analysing valuing, hybridity and compromises for Chinese middle managers4
The role of the professional association in the translation of accrual accounting in the Sri Lankan public sector4
Orchestration and consolidation in corporate sustainability reporting. The legacy of the Corporate Reporting Dialogue4
Accountability, emergency and liberty during COVID-19 in the UK 2020–224
Environmental accounting and state power in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1537–1621)4
The special thing of clubs in the German football Bundesliga – about the legal forms of the clubs and the resulting consequences4
The professional identity of accountants – an empirical analysis of job advertisements4
The use of management controls to progress emancipation3
Management control practices and pragmatism3
Monetization of politics and public procurement in Ghana3
Hybridization as practice: clinical engagement with performance metrics and accounting technologies in the English NHS3
When audit confronts blockchain3
Listen to their silent cries3
Believe, resist and conquer3
Scaling and controlling talent development in high-intensity organizations: the case of a Swedish football club3
The anatomy of tragedy: Starbucks as a politics of displacement3
Identity performances on professional accounting association magazine covers3
The value of research activities “other than” publishing articles: reflections on an experimental workshop series3
Self, ethics, morality and accountability: a case of a public university3
Calculating a life: classification, valuation and compensation in the British abolition of slavery3
Interventionist research in management accounting: promoting engagement through face-to-face dialogues3
Methodological Insights “Materiality is …”: sensemaking and sensegiving through storytelling3
Politics of accounting evidence in privatising telecommunications in Sri Lanka3
Field-configuring events and the failure to standardise accounting for carbon emissions3
Understanding accountability in blockchain systems3
On affect and accounting inscriptions: a study of fair value in the making3
AAAJ Literature and Insights: Voices of resistance3
Oh, not again!3
Literature and Insights Editorial3
Positioning Prem Sikka’s academic activism in the third space3
The making of a multiplicity of overlapping controls3
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