..., enhancing the government's plans. A collective identity on the part of the Italian people sustained the mass mobilisation, driven by cohesion, solidarity and a deep cultural trauma from COVID-19's dramatic effects. Popular culture and Italy's long traditions also helped to form the collective identity...

...Jonida Carungu; Matteo Molinari Purpose This paper explores the stereotype of the accountant in Florentine medieval popular culture based on literary works and from a historical perspective. It aims to highlight how stereotypes change with time and represent the cultural and historical evolution...

...Mark Christensen; Sébastien Rocher Purpose In analysing the beancounter image's trajectory, from its birth to its persistence, in European French language comics between 1945 and 2016, this paper explores why artists continue beancounter image usage in popular culture. Design/methodology...

... inquiry: the media space, the virtual space and the popular culture space. Originality/value – The paper identifies three new creative spaces in which interdisciplinary accounting research may continue to flourish. It also identifies a possible threat to creativity within future interdisciplinary...

... financial crises to the general public. Originality/value The paper provides useful information on interpretations of financial crises. Interpretative templates offered by popular culture use strong plots more often than not (Czarniawska and Rhodes, 2006). As these are the main focus of the present...

...Ingrid Jeacle; Ingrid Jeacle Purpose The objective of this paper is to recognize the richness in exploring the inter‐linkages between accounting and popular culture. Such an investigation should reap returns in not only furthering an understanding of accounting, but also the ways and means...

...Ingrid Jeacle; Frances Miley; Andrew Read Purpose The accountant has been characterised in popular culture as dull and boring. Accounting scholarship consistently describes this stereotype as negative. The purpose of this research is to enhance our understanding of this stereotype by comparing...