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Evaluating Assertions by a Wells Fargo CEO of a ‘Return to Ethical Conduct’ (2022)
Journal Article

We explore the language used by the CEO of Wells Fargo, Timothy Sloan, to sustain claims that Wells Fargo and its staff would behave in an ethically appropriate way in the future. We focus on Sloan’s opening written statement to the Committee on Bank... Read More about Evaluating Assertions by a Wells Fargo CEO of a ‘Return to Ethical Conduct’.

Using historical institutional analysis of corporatism to understand the professionalization of accounting in Latin America (2022)
Journal Article

We investigate factors that have influenced the professionalization of accounting in five Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico). Through comparative historical institutional analysis of corporatism in those countrie... Read More about Using historical institutional analysis of corporatism to understand the professionalization of accounting in Latin America.

Elevating Financial Reporting Beyond a Mere Compliance Instrument* (2022)
Journal Article

We highlight how complying with detailed professional accounting rules can lead to lies and undermine the overall objectives of financial reporting. We do so by conducting a retrospective analysis (using the argumentation concepts of premise, qualifi... Read More about Elevating Financial Reporting Beyond a Mere Compliance Instrument*.

Reasons for Bureaucracy in the Management of Portuguese Public Enterprise Hospitals – An Institutional Logics Perspective (2021)
Journal Article

There is widespread perception that bureaucracy is omnipresent in Portuguese health care management. This is despite bureaucracy being heavily deprecated. This paper addresses this dissonance by studying the Portuguese Public Enterprise Entity Hospit... Read More about Reasons for Bureaucracy in the Management of Portuguese Public Enterprise Hospitals – An Institutional Logics Perspective.

Research misconduct complaints and institutional logics: The case of Hans Eysenck and the British Psychological Society (2020)
Journal Article
Craig, R., Pelosi, T., & Tourish, D. (2021). Research misconduct complaints and institutional logics: The case of Hans Eysenck and the British Psychological Society. Journal of Health Psychology, 26(2), 296-311. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105320963542

A formal complaint was lodged with the British Psychological Society in 1995 that alleged serious scientific misconduct by Hans J Eysenck. The complaint referred to research into the links between personality traits and the causes, prevention and tre... Read More about Research misconduct complaints and institutional logics: The case of Hans Eysenck and the British Psychological Society.

The language of leadership in a deadly pandemic (2020)
Journal Article
Craig, R., & Amernic, J. (2020). The language of leadership in a deadly pandemic. Strategy and Leadership, 48(5), 41-47. https://doi.org/10.1108/sl-05-2020-0068

In early May 2020, when approximately 265,000 deaths had been attributed to the COVID-19 virus across the world, many countries were in various stages of lockdown, unemployment was increasing rapidly and most employees who had jobs were working remot... Read More about The language of leadership in a deadly pandemic.

Bureaucracy and the balanced scorecard in health care settings (2020)
Journal Article
Craig, R., Oliveira, H., & Rodrigues, L. (2020). Bureaucracy and the balanced scorecard in health care settings. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 33(3), 247-259. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa-07-2019-0121

Purpose: We explore the relationship between the balanced scorecard (BSC) and neo-bureaucracy by investigating whether the operationalization of the BSC incorporates “neo-bureaucratic” ideas and whether the BSC implemented in a Portuguese Local Healt... Read More about Bureaucracy and the balanced scorecard in health care settings.

Using retracted journal articles in psychology to understand research misconduct in the social sciences: What is to be done? (2020)
Journal Article
Craig, R., Cox, A., Tourish, D., & Thorpe, A. (2020). Using retracted journal articles in psychology to understand research misconduct in the social sciences: What is to be done?. Research Policy, 49(4), Article 103930. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2020.103930

This paper explores the nature and impact of research misconduct in psychology by analyzing 160 articles that were retracted from prominent scholarly journals between 1998 and 2017. We compare findings with recent studies of retracted papers in econo... Read More about Using retracted journal articles in psychology to understand research misconduct in the social sciences: What is to be done?.

Institutional Theory and IFRS: An Agenda for Future Research (2020)
Journal Article
Guerreiro, M., Rodrigues, L., & Craig, R. (2020). Institutional Theory and IFRS: An Agenda for Future Research. Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting / Revista Espa?ola de Financiacion y Contabilidad, 50(1), 65-88. https://doi.org/10.1080/02102412.2020.1712877

While authentic leadership is highly valued in today’s business world, managers do not necessarily have the resources to attain it. Building on conservation of resources theory, we propose a conceptual model to address how personal and contextual res... Read More about Institutional Theory and IFRS: An Agenda for Future Research.

Benefits and pitfalls of a CEO’s personal Twitter messaging (2019)
Journal Article
Craig, R., & Amernic, J. (2019). Benefits and pitfalls of a CEO’s personal Twitter messaging. Strategy and Leadership, 48(1), 43-48. https://doi.org/10.1108/sl-10-2019-0154

Social media platforms such as Twitter represent a new and potentially potent corporate communication technology. A stream of tweets from a corporate CEO’s personal Twitter account can be an effective component of the communication media used to exer... Read More about Benefits and pitfalls of a CEO’s personal Twitter messaging.