OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Management interventions in pacing a planned financial accounting outsourcing transition	85
The accountability of ethnographers: the views of Paolo Virno	56
Guest editorial: Special issue on accounting for tacit coordination … and beyond	54
Literature reviews of qualitative accounting research: challenges and opportunities	31
Corporate social responsibility disclosures and reputation risk management post the banking royal commission: a study of the big four banks	24
Data analytics use in financial due diligence: the influence of accounting and commercial logic	23
Change agents’ enactment of management control systems: shaping strategic change in a telecommunications organisation	16
Performance management in the prosocial market economy: a new paradigm for economic performance and sustainability	15
Mapping data-driven management in accounting: the premise and promise of the debate and how to move beyond	15
Coherence in the use of a performance measurement system and compatibility between institutional logics in public hospitals	14
Qualitative research on financial accounting – an emerging field	13
Management accounting practice as understanding, supporting and advancing local epistemic methods	12
On humans, algorithms and data	12
Competing logics in budgeting in a university setting in Tanzania	12
Constructing and co-authoring controller’s practice through cloud technologies: the case of IKEA Italy	12
YouTube and the protocological control of platform organisations	12
Values and targets in an institutional entrepreneur in an extreme situation: Assisting in survival as a going concern status and as worthiness	10
Towards a general model of stakeholders’ commitment to accounting change	10
The habitus of individuals in performance measurement practices in universities: a case study	10
The critical potential of institutional theory revisited — a field study of the rationalisation of budget fairness through agentic actorhood	9
Probity or performance? 150 years of public expenditure reform, UK Defence 1850-2000	9
Accounting as a means to legitimacy: the case of internally generated intangibles	9
Navigating the PhD journey: a collective consideration of junior academics in qualitative accounting and management research	8
States of responds to conflicting institutional logics: power dynamics and the role of management reports	8
Coping with audit society pressures: a review of NGO responses to funder accountability demands	8

A methodological framework for theoretical explanation in performance management and management control systems research	8
Ladder of analytical abstraction: a constructive map for data analysis a case of voluntary reporting of human capital	8
Prosociality in performance management: integrating second nature	7
Seizing overflows: exploring how accounting becomes emancipatory	7
Navigating the emotional challenges of ethnographic accounting research: notes from first-time ethnographers	7
Integrating a new management accounting routine into a routine cluster: the role of interactions between multiple management accounting routines	7
Gaining traction: how SMEs succeed in making management control systems stick	7
Performance management system components and the role of the management accountant	7
The end of audit. Spectacle and love in the audit society	6
Long-term alterations of ERP systems: lasting through relinquishment and regeneration	6
The performativity of accounting: advancing a Posthumanist understanding	6
Stakeholder accountability in the era of big data: an exploratory study of online platform companies	5
Tacit coordination as a background practice to accounting practices – reflections on Vollmer’s case for a sociological super-theory of accounting	5
Managing institutional complexity in a state-owned enterprise – the role of explicated values and other management controls	5
The intersection between ‘The Audit Society’ and public sector corruption and fraud: – a literature review and future research agenda	5
Auditors’ search for meaningfulness in sustainability assurance work	5
Reconciling institutional logics and management control practices in DRG reform: a multiple case study of private hospitals in China	4
Three approaches to interviews: tell me about you, them, “fictitious” others	4
Audit society goes viral: the rise of the online auditor	4
My self-reflection on the importance of Michael Power’s book The Audit Society to my research and interest in auditing	4
Accounting theory, ethnography, and the silence of the social	4
The transformation of intellectual capital disclosures: exploring the online intellectual capital disclosure by Hong Kong universities	4
Exploring accountant’s involvement in circular economy: experiences and perspectives of practitioners	4
Do we still need financial intermediation? The case of decentralized finance – DeFi	4
The emergence of audit data analytics in existing audit spaces: findings from three technologically advanced audit and assurance service markets	4
Managerial conception of integrating sustainability into management control systems: evidence from Sri Lankan manufacturing companies	4
Defiance as an image restoration strategy: refining the reputation risk management framework	4
How do accounts pass? A discussion of Vollmer’s “Accounting for tacit coordination”	4