... rights only Accounting association mergers Identity performance Professional identity Professional magazines Professionalism Commercialism Audience Much has been written about the shift from professionalism to commercialism that has taken place within the accounting profession over...

...Christian Ott Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate to what extent the professional identity of accountants, as manifested in a set of advanced cognitive, emotional and social intelligence competencies relevant to their professional activities, varies with the respective accounting...

... of accountants, auditors and advisors in Sweden. The study used established measures of organizational and professional identity and introduced market, customer and firm process orientation as aspects of commercialization. The study explored the data through descriptive statistics, principle component analysis...

... professional identities and MAC influences attempts to make organizations more horizontal. In this paper the authors respond to the call for more research on the relationship between horizontalization and accounting and control. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the emerging literature...

... and opportunity for ethnographic considerations of the small firm or, at the aggregated level, a statistical description that would supplement, with richer sociological data, the existing databases. Research on professional identity has tended to focus increasingly on firms themselves, rather than professional...