Table II.

Findings dealing with the translation of interview quotations

No.Author (Year)TitleJournalLocationFindings
B1Vinnari and Laine (2013) Just a passing fad? The diffusion and decline of environmental reporting in the Finnish water sectorAAAJFinland“Both the interview transcripts and all the published material are in Finnish and hence the quotations provided in this paper have been translated by the authors.” (p. 1115)
B2Morin (2011) Serving as magistrate at the French Cour des comptes: Navigating between tradition and modernityAAAJCanada“‘We try to safeguard public financial resources, to keep the State from overheating, to limit the administrative greenhouse effect, to indicate new ways of saving the energy of State agents …’ (our translation).” (p. 728)
B3Mutiganda (2013) Budgetary governance and accountability in public sector organizations: An institutional and critical realism approachCPAFinland“[T]he author translated all quotes not made in English.” (p. 523)
“Interviewees expressed themselves either in Finnish, Swedish or English, depending on their choice. Interview summaries, however, were written in English.” (p. 524)
B4Caramanis et al. (2015) Transplanting Anglo-American accounting oversight boards to a diverse institutional contextAOSGreece/UK“In addition, all semi-structured interviews cited herein have been conducted by the other co-authors.” (p. 17)
B5Contrafatto (2014) The institutionalization of social and environmental reporting: An Italian narrativeAOSItaly“Interviews were carried out, through the medium of the Italian language …” (p. 419)
“Quotations from interviewees and other evidential sources, which are reported in the following narrative, have been translated from Italian to English by the author.” (p. 419)
B6Brivot and Gendron (2011) Beyond panopticism: On the ramifications of surveillance in a contemporary professional settingAOSCanada“All interviews were in French; we translated the excerpts incorporated in this paper.” (p. 143)
B7Skærbæk and Tryggestad (2010) The role of accounting devices in performing corporate strategyAOSDenmark“All quotations from the case account are translated from Danish by the authors.” (p. 112)
B8Hansson and Longva (2014) Contracting accountability in network governance structuresQRAMSweden/Norway“The working groups were there before, but many of them had not been functioning due to lack of money. Now they are back in operation because of the money supply – there is a big difference! (Interview I, translated).” (p. 104)

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