...Lukas Löhlein; Christian Huber Purpose A total of 25 years of research on the audit society has provided rich and engaging accounts of the ways in which rituals of verification have conditioned organizations and individuals to think and act. In contrast, this paper aims to explore the possibility...

...Jan Bebbington; Carlos Larrinaga Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon the contribution of the Mike Power’s Audit Society and associated papers from the 1990s to the (then) emerging field of environmental accounting. The paper also looks forward to how these seminal ideas...

...Yves Gendron Purpose This paper aims to bring to the fore some conditions of possibility surrounding the audit society thesis that might have contributed to construct a sense of distinctiveness around it, thereby facilitating its spread and travel in the accounting research community (and beyond...

...Ingrid Jeacle; Chris Carter Purpose This paper aims to consider the impact of Michael Power’s (1997) Audit Society thesis for understanding the rise of audit logics in the virtual world. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews some of the key concepts in Audit Society and discusses them...