Table 1.

Accounting and performativity

Performativity as destinationPerformativity as ongoing journey
Conceptions of accountingPerformative accountingExamplesPerformative accountingExamples
Accounting as an act of calculationAccounting as a (counter)-performative illocutionBoedker et al. (2020) Accounting as a performative perlocutionRevellino and Mouritsen (2015, 2017)
Busco and Quattrone (2018a) 
Accounting as a discourse (or general frame)Accounting as a self-fulfilling prophecyEzzamel (2009)
Baker and Modell (2019)
Power (2021)
Ruff (2021) 
Accounting as an overflowing frameThemsen and Skærbæk (2018)
Faulconbridge and Muzio (2021) 
Accounting as an actorAccounting as a controlled relational agencyDambrin and Robson (2011)
McLaren and Appleyard (2020) 
Accounting as a mediatorVosselman (2014)
Mouritsen and Kreiner (2016)
Minnaar et al. (2017)
Van Erp et al. (2019) 
Accounting as a material-discursive practice  Accounting as an exclusionary practiceKeevers et al. (2012)
Orlikowski and Scott (2014) 

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