Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal: Volume 26 Issue 1

Accounting scholars and journals rating and benchmarking: Risking academic research quality

This editorial aims to consider contemporary issues for accounting scholars, in particular journals rating and benchmarking, arguing that current international trends are risking…

Players' registration rights in the financial statements of the leading Italian clubs: A survey of Inter, Juventus, Lazio, Milan and Roma

This study seeks to examine the influence of the gamut of changes that have taken place in the past 15 years in the world of international football that have permanently…

Technology, change, and management control: a temporal perspective

This paper aims to analyze the implications of technology change on management control. Specifically, the paper seeks to examine the deployment of an enterprise resource planning…

Corporate social responsibility and tax aggressiveness: a test of legitimacy theory

The purpose of this paper is to empirically test legitimacy theory by comparing the corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures of tax aggressive corporations with those of…

Power and performance: Institutional embeddedness and performance management in a Chinese local government organization

The purpose of this paper is to explore how performance management practices are implicated in the exercise of power with particular reference to the ability of individual…

Perceptions of share price: long‐term or short‐term oriented?

One stream of research has claimed share price to be long‐term oriented, whereas, in contrast, another has found it to be short‐term oriented. Through in‐depth analysis, this…

The influence of epistemology: an auto‐ethnography

This poem aims to examine the difficulties of getting qualitative research published.

Selfish wishes

The purpose of this paper is to explore the outcomes of executing three wishes that must have a selfish motivation.

2012 Awards for Excellence

Inspired or insipid? A critical view of criticism