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The Role of Cunning Misrepresentations in Entrepreneurial Impression Management (2024)
Journal Article
Giazitzoglu, A., Whittle, A., & Mueller, F. (2024). The Role of Cunning Misrepresentations in Entrepreneurial Impression Management. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2024.2357773

This paper develops a dramaturgical theory of cunning misrepresentations, an important but previously unexplored aspect of entrepreneurial impression management. By cunning misrepresentations, we refer not to illegal activities such as fraud or corru... Read More about The Role of Cunning Misrepresentations in Entrepreneurial Impression Management.

Accounting for the “harms” of social media firms: Dialogic accountability and discursive contestation in public hearings (2023)
Journal Article
Yusuff, K., Whittle, A., & Mueller, F. (2023). Accounting for the “harms” of social media firms: Dialogic accountability and discursive contestation in public hearings. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-11-2022-6165

Purpose Existing literature has begun to identify the agonistic and contested aspects of the ongoing development of accountability systems. These “contests” are particularly important during periods of change when an accountability “deficit” has bee... Read More about Accounting for the “harms” of social media firms: Dialogic accountability and discursive contestation in public hearings.

Grassroots accountability: the practical and symbolic aspects of performance (2023)
Journal Article
Millar, J., Mueller, F., & Carter, C. (2023). Grassroots accountability: the practical and symbolic aspects of performance. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, https://doi.org/10.1108/aaaj-06-2022-5865

Purpose: Our study provides a theoretical framework for interdisciplinary accounting scholars interested in performances of accountability in front of live audiences. Design/methodology: This is a processual case study of ‘Falkirk in crisis’ that cov... Read More about Grassroots accountability: the practical and symbolic aspects of performance.

A dramaturgical framework for strategy as practice (2023)
Book Chapter
Whittle, A., & Mueller, F. (in press). A dramaturgical framework for strategy as practice. In D. Golsorkhi, D. Seidl, & E. Vaara (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice. (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press

Philanthropy and the sustaining of global elite university domination (2022)
Journal Article
Harvey, C., Gibson, A., Maclean, M., & Mueller, F. (2022). Philanthropy and the sustaining of global elite university domination. Organization, https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084221115842

How is it that global elite universities operating in a hyper-competitive world replete with aspirational challengers maintain positions of dominance within the field of higher education decade after decade? Taking a Bourdieusian approach, we argue t... Read More about Philanthropy and the sustaining of global elite university domination.

Membership Categorisation Analysis: Developing Awareness of Categories and their Consequences (2022)
Book Chapter
Whittle, A., & Mueller, F. (2022). Membership Categorisation Analysis: Developing Awareness of Categories and their Consequences. In E. Darics (Ed.), Language Awareness in Business and the Professions (183-203). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108696159.014

This chapter outlines an approach to the study of categorisation in language practice grounded in the work of American sociologist Harvey Sacks known as Membership Categorisation Analysis. MCA proposes that categories and their associated ‘normative... Read More about Membership Categorisation Analysis: Developing Awareness of Categories and their Consequences.

Academics and policy makers at odds: the case of the IFRS Foundation Trustees’ Consultation Paper on Sustainability Reporting (2022)
Journal Article
Adams, C., & Mueller, F. (2022). Academics and policy makers at odds: the case of the IFRS Foundation Trustees’ Consultation Paper on Sustainability Reporting. Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, 13(6), 1310-1333. https://doi.org/10.1108/sampj-10-2021-0436

Purpose: This paper considers the nature of academic engagement with policy and the (lack of) responsiveness by policy makers to the scientific community through the development of the IFRS Foundation Trustees’ Consultation Paper on Sustainability Re... Read More about Academics and policy makers at odds: the case of the IFRS Foundation Trustees’ Consultation Paper on Sustainability Reporting.

Official Truth, Applied Deconstruction and Post-Inquiry Sensemaking in the Mull of Kintyre Helicopter Crash (2022)
Journal Article
Mueller, F., Whittle, A., & Addison, S. (2022). Official Truth, Applied Deconstruction and Post-Inquiry Sensemaking in the Mull of Kintyre Helicopter Crash. Human Relations, https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267221082881

On 2nd June 1994, an RAF Chinook helicopter crashed into the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, killing all crew members and intelligence personnel onboard. In this paper, we analyse the 17- year campaign to set aside the finding of gross negligence against... Read More about Official Truth, Applied Deconstruction and Post-Inquiry Sensemaking in the Mull of Kintyre Helicopter Crash.

‘Capital Breeds Capital’: Bourdieu and the Cross-National Importation of Organisational Models (2021)
Book Chapter
Yang, R., Harvey, C., Mueller, F., & Maclean, M. (2021). ‘Capital Breeds Capital’: Bourdieu and the Cross-National Importation of Organisational Models. In S. Robinson, J. Ernst, K. Larsen, & O. J. Thomassen (Eds.), Pierre Bourdieu in Studies of Organization and Management: Societal Change and Transforming Fields. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003022510

This chapter draws upon Bourdieu’s concept of capital to examine the importation of organisational models and the adaptive processes that we observed in respective institutional contexts. Through the lens of a longitudinal case study, we demonstrate... Read More about ‘Capital Breeds Capital’: Bourdieu and the Cross-National Importation of Organisational Models.