Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management

Papers
(The TQCC of Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management is 8. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Management interventions in pacing a planned financial accounting outsourcing transition76
The accountability of ethnographers: the views of Paolo Virno53
Guest editorial: Special issue on accounting for tacit coordination … and beyond52
Literature reviews of qualitative accounting research: challenges and opportunities29
Enhancing delivery: algorithms supporting performance management in the logistics sector23
Mapping data-driven management in accounting: the premise and promise of the debate and how to move beyond22
Corporate social responsibility disclosures and reputation risk management post the banking royal commission: a study of the big four banks16
Data analytics use in financial due diligence: the influence of accounting and commercial logic15
Performance management in the prosocial market economy: a new paradigm for economic performance and sustainability14
Qualitative research on financial accounting – an emerging field14
Change agents’ enactment of management control systems: shaping strategic change in a telecommunications organisation14
Reaching up and out: the audit society12
Constructing and co-authoring controller’s practice through cloud technologies: the case of IKEA Italy12
Coherence in the use of a performance measurement system and compatibility between institutional logics in public hospitals12
YouTube and the protocological control of platform organisations11
Towards a general model of stakeholders’ commitment to accounting change11
Management accounting practice as understanding, supporting and advancing local epistemic methods11
On humans, algorithms and data11
Competing logics in budgeting in a university setting in Tanzania10
Values and targets in an institutional entrepreneur in an extreme situation: Assisting in survival as a going concern status and as worthiness10
The critical potential of institutional theory revisited — a field study of the rationalisation of budget fairness through agentic actorhood10
Probity or performance? 150 years of public expenditure reform, UK Defence 1850-20009
The habitus of individuals in performance measurement practices in universities: a case study9
Navigating the PhD journey: a collective consideration of junior academics in qualitative accounting and management research8
States of responds to conflicting institutional logics: power dynamics and the role of management reports8
Coping with audit society pressures: a review of NGO responses to funder accountability demands8
A methodological framework for theoretical explanation in performance management and management control systems research8
Accounting as a means to legitimacy: the case of internally generated intangibles8
Ladder of analytical abstraction: a constructive map for data analysis a case of voluntary reporting of human capital8
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