... work Ethnography Managers Professional service firms Professional work Professional service firms (PSFs), such as accounting, consulting or law firms, are recognized as organizations that apply specialized knowledge to create and deliver services to clients (Hinings et al., 2015...

... and the papers selected for this AAAJ special issue, with few exceptions, accountability shifts from the researched to the researcher as research accounts are produced. Yet, ethnographies of accountability are epistemologically and ontologically weighted towards accepting the possibility of shared...

... their boundaries behind the scenes and why they engage with the environment the way they do. This element of their environmental identity offers important insights into the emergence of sustainability reporting. Design/methodology/approach Guided by Miles and Ringham (2019) the authors conduct an ethnography...

... Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Sexual misconduct at work Community activism #MeToo Organisation accountability Accountability instruments Ethnography Any place I go to, there are people like you. They're all interested in significant...

... between the market and the public sector. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a one-year ethnography of how employees achieve to qualify their work as “good work” in situations with several and sometimes conflicting ideals of what “good work” is. Fieldwork material was collected...

.../legalcode . Management accounting change Leadership Followership Disputes Divergent relationalities Ethnography Leadership has long been recognized as an important factor in the process of management accounting change, such as the introduction of a new accounting system or a role change...

... be contacted at: Naoko.Komori@mbs.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Gender Auditing Accountancy Ethnography Women workers Japan Following the case of the Sanyo Special Steel Company in 1965, the first fraudulent bankruptcy to draw public attention to the ineffectiveness...

...). Social accounting Ethnography Fair trade United kingdom The quantity of corporate social reporting (CSR) in the last decade, particularly from multi‐national corporations, has increased substantially. At the same time, however, empirical reviews of recent disclosures have concluded that CSR...

...). Usually by the time qualitative accounts reach academic journals they have been sanitized. Case studies Accounting Qualitative research Ethnography Accounting theory Few qualitative researchers have described in detail the ethical and political processes of “getting in, getting...

...Colin Dey Ethnography has emerged as a potentially valuable empirical means of understanding how and why accounting operates within organisations. However, its use in the accounting literature has not been without controversy. This paper addresses one of the key issues of dispute: the role...

... of AIS agency in social and technological change. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Accounting information systems Accountancy Downsizing Ethnography Marxian economics Social responsibility By early 1997, the US economic boom had earned the distinction of becoming the longest phase...

... Ethnography Managerial power Small firms The study had now taken on a different, but compatible, methodology from that of ethnography. It now took a “middle‐range thinking” approach to studying the case, (an approach developed and utilized in work by Laughlin (1995) and Broadbent (1992) in which...