... irony is that professional firms now undertake evaluative-descriptive research in areas such as accounting narratives, producing results with, I argue, much of the character of academic work, when they scarcely did any of this work before academia’s social scientific turn. I suggest that we can draw...

... research on accounting narratives. This paper analyses the nature and extent of convergence within the literature of the narrative turn in narrative accounting research, using Latour’s theory of citation and Shwed and Bearman’s modelling of patterns of convergence (though not, for reasons explained later...