...Ataur Belal; Crawford Spence; Chris Carter; Jingqi Zhu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the work practices of Big 4 firms in Bangladesh with the aim of exploring the extent to which global professional service firms (GPSFs) can be thought of as being genuinely “global”. Design...

... practices. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes a political economy perspective to consider the serious implications of the neo-liberal ideologies of the global capitalist economy, as manifested in Tanzania’s regulatory framework and in NGO activism, for the corporate disclosure...

... 2015 Globalization Legitimacy Professions Experts Tax New audit spaces This paper does not seek to reprise the major contributions to the study of the professions (for some recent attempts see Brock et al., 2014 ; Suddaby and Muzio, 2015) but instead to scope out...

... identity. The so-called Professional Services Firms studies are, in fact, usually Big Professional Services Firm studies (Covaleski et al., 1998 ; Faulconbridge and Muzio, 2008). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Categorization Globalization Professional identity Hierarchy...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Small businesses Accounting Objectives Communications preferences Customer relationship management Globalization Australia The myriad of players who comprise the small business sector and their numerous forms, ranging from very small home based...

...Lee D. Parker; James Guthrie Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the role of the business school now and in the future. Design/methodology/approach The paper takes the form of an editorial review and argument. Findings The paper acknowledges the impact of globalization...

...Prem Sikka Purpose The purpose of this paper is to seek to illuminate some of the dynamics of globalization that enable capital to advance its interests. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses theories of globalization focusing upon the “race‐to‐the‐bottom”. Such theories draw attention...