...Rebecca Maughan; Aideen O'Dochartaigh Purpose This study examines how accounting tools and techniques are used to create and support membership and reporting boundaries for a multi-entity sustainability scheme. It also considers whether boundary setting for this initiative helps to connect...

... on accountability. Design/methodology/approach The authors reflect on why ethnographic investigation is essential to accountability research and the boundaries that constrained and enabled both this Special Issue and which occur in ethnographic research. Findings The contents of this issue do not merely...

...Daniel Torchia; Simone Domenico Scagnelli; Laura Corazza Purpose The purpose of this paper is to extend research on boundary making and breaking through alternative football clubs. These entities have borne out of the disappointment caused by the neoliberal turn of the football industry, which...

...Edward Gamble; Gary Caton Purpose This paper aims to explore the important role boundaries play in back-office framing of environmental engagement. This is of particular interest because it is not clear how organizations in an industry without standardized environmental reporting navigate...