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Evaluating Assertions by a Wells Fargo CEO of a ‘Return to Ethical Conduct’ (2022)
Journal Article
Amernic, J., & Craig, R. (2022). Evaluating Assertions by a Wells Fargo CEO of a ‘Return to Ethical Conduct’. Leadership, 18(3), 400-426. https://doi.org/10.1177/17427150211064397

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
Rodrigues, L., & Craig, R. (2022). Using historical institutional analysis of corporatism to understand the professionalization of accounting in Latin America. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 97, Article 101330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2021.101330

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
Smieliauskas, W., Craig, R., & Amernic, J. (2022). Elevating Financial Reporting Beyond a Mere Compliance Instrument*. Accounting Perspectives, 21(1), 61-100. https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3838.12282

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)
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Costa Oliveira, H., Lima Rodrigues, L., & Craig, R. (2023). Reasons for Bureaucracy in the Management of Portuguese Public Enterprise Hospitals – An Institutional Logics Perspective. International Journal of Public Administration, 46(5), 344-353. https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2021.1995748

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)
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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)
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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.

Autobiographical Vignettes in Annual Report CEO Letters as a Lens to Understand How Leadership is Conceived and Enacted (2019)
Journal Article
Craig, R., & Amernic, J. (2020). Autobiographical Vignettes in Annual Report CEO Letters as a Lens to Understand How Leadership is Conceived and Enacted. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 33(1), 106-123. https://doi.org/10.1108/aaaj-12-2018-3774

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine autobiographical vignettes that are embedded in the annual report letters to shareholders of chief executive officers (CEOs). The aim is to reveal the capacity of this narrative to self-construct leade... Read More about Autobiographical Vignettes in Annual Report CEO Letters as a Lens to Understand How Leadership is Conceived and Enacted.

The Presence of Bureaucracy in the Balanced Scorecard (2019)
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Costa Oliveira, H., Lima-Rodrigues, L., & Craig, R. (2019). The Presence of Bureaucracy in the Balanced Scorecard. Revista de Contabilidad, 22(2), 218-224. https://doi.org/10.6018/rcsar.382271

Despite being widely pilloried, bureaucratic processes are present in many organizations as a form of neo-bureaucracy. In this paper, we analyse whether a technique used in Management Accounting Systems(MAS), known as the Balanced Scorecard (BSC), re... Read More about The Presence of Bureaucracy in the Balanced Scorecard.

Corporate social responsibility disclosure in small and medium-sized entities and large companies (2019)
Journal Article
Dias, A., Rodrigues, L., Craig, R., & Neves, M. (2019). Corporate social responsibility disclosure in small and medium-sized entities and large companies. Social Responsibility Journal, 15(2), 137-154. https://doi.org/10.1108/srj-05-2017-0090

Purpose Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) literature has focused mainly on larger firms. Only recently has discussion of the engagement of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in CSR emerged in research studies. Here we contribute to that gr... Read More about Corporate social responsibility disclosure in small and medium-sized entities and large companies.

Retraction statements and research malpractice in economics (2018)
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Cox, A., Craig, R., & Tourish, D. (2018). Retraction statements and research malpractice in economics. Research Policy, 47(5), 924-935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2018.02.016

We draw on rational crime theory to help analyse 55 articles that have been retracted from 734 peer-reviewed journals in the field of economics. We highlight and discuss what these findings indicate regarding the nature and pattern of research malpra... Read More about Retraction statements and research malpractice in economics.

The role of government accounting and taxation in the institutionalization of slavery in Brazil (2018)
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Rodrigues, L., & Craig, R. (2018). The role of government accounting and taxation in the institutionalization of slavery in Brazil. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 57, 21-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2018.02.001

We use a theoretical framework based on concepts of historical institutionalism, institutional logic and ideology to enhance understanding of how government accounting and taxation helped to institutionalize slavery in Brazil by interpreting enslaved... Read More about The role of government accounting and taxation in the institutionalization of slavery in Brazil.