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Urban Social Housing in Brazil, Forced Removals at Campos Elíseos, and Accounting: A Framing through Milton Santos (2025)
Journal Article
Carvalho, T., Sauerbronn, F., Haslam, J., & Denedo, M. (in press). Urban Social Housing in Brazil, Forced Removals at Campos Elíseos, and Accounting: A Framing through Milton Santos. The British Accounting Review, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101737

This study explores the financialisation of housing policy in Brazil with focus on how accounting practices facilitated this, including forced removals in Campos Elíseos, São Paulo, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using Santos’ Two Circuits Theory, the... Read More about Urban Social Housing in Brazil, Forced Removals at Campos Elíseos, and Accounting: A Framing through Milton Santos.

Governance and accountability in reshaping public services: Open challenges and Wicked Problems of the 21st Century (2025)
Journal Article
Barbera, C., Ferry, L., Hyndman, N., Liguori, M., McCandless, S., & Midgley, H. (in press). Governance and accountability in reshaping public services: Open challenges and Wicked Problems of the 21st Century. Public Administration,

Issues of accountability are ubiquitous in public governance. Accountability connects with other concerns like legitimacy, power, citizen engagement, and new modes of service production. These issues and connections become all the more poignant given... Read More about Governance and accountability in reshaping public services: Open challenges and Wicked Problems of the 21st Century.

Lost in translation? Travel of ideas and encountering institutional voids: reporting of payments to governments in Sweden (2025)
Journal Article
Blomkvist, M., Crawford, L., Haslam, J., & Sabelfeld, L. (online). Lost in translation? Travel of ideas and encountering institutional voids: reporting of payments to governments in Sweden. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-01-2023-6269

Purpose
We extend theorizing of the travel of ideas and the encountering of institutional voids. We explore the translation of EU accounting laws to a member state, Sweden, including coverage of outcomes, focusing upon translation of mandatory discl... Read More about Lost in translation? Travel of ideas and encountering institutional voids: reporting of payments to governments in Sweden.

Stigma power, race and public accountability: an exploration of the hard lockdown of public housing in Melbourne (2025)
Journal Article
Bobe, B., Denedo, M., Ejiogu, A., & Azizul Islam, M. (online). Stigma power, race and public accountability: an exploration of the hard lockdown of public housing in Melbourne. European Accounting Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/09638180.2025.2510331

This study explores the intersection between stigma and accountability in the context of a disaster. We draw on the notion of stigma power to explore the COVID-19 pandemic-related hard lockdown of nine public housing towers in Melbourne, Australia, i... Read More about Stigma power, race and public accountability: an exploration of the hard lockdown of public housing in Melbourne.

Politics and Personalities: The 1986 Commonwealth Games as Strategic Action Field (2025)
Journal Article
Millar, J., & Mueller, F. (online). Politics and Personalities: The 1986 Commonwealth Games as Strategic Action Field. Public Management Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2025.2462256

Quadrennial sporting events are a recognized form of megaproject or mega-event and prior literature has examined in depth their motivations, and the reasons why they frequently fail to deliver promised outcomes. Much less attention has been paid in t... Read More about Politics and Personalities: The 1986 Commonwealth Games as Strategic Action Field.

Public Accountability in an Unpredictable World: Tales of the Unexpected (2024)
Journal Article
Ferry, L., Hyndman, N., Liguori, M., & Midgley, H. (2025). Public Accountability in an Unpredictable World: Tales of the Unexpected. Abacus: A Journal of Accounting, Finance and Business Studies, 61(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/abac.12354

This paper aims to provide an overview of the different research themes and concepts that surround the investigation of crises and how these affect the delivery of important public services. It offers a critical reflection on what crisis means, how f... Read More about Public Accountability in an Unpredictable World: Tales of the Unexpected.

Is Social Media a Democratic Forum for Public Accountability in Times of Crisis? The Brazilian Government's Response to the COVID ‐19 Pandemic (2024)
Journal Article
Dos Santos, T. A., & Lopes, I. F. (2025). Is Social Media a Democratic Forum for Public Accountability in Times of Crisis? The Brazilian Government's Response to the COVID ‐19 Pandemic. Abacus: A Journal of Accounting, Finance and Business Studies, 61(1), 194-217. https://doi.org/10.1111/abac.12356

The COVID‐19 crisis has troubled the world. In the Brazilian context, many people struggled financially to survive a period of social isolation. Therefore, in the surge of the pandemic, making a decision or forming an opinion about government decisio... Read More about Is Social Media a Democratic Forum for Public Accountability in Times of Crisis? The Brazilian Government's Response to the COVID ‐19 Pandemic.

Queering Accounting Spaces: Lived, Embodied, and Violent Experiences of a Gay and Black Accounting Brazilian Lecturer (2024)
Journal Article
dos Santos, T. A., Lopes, I. F., & McGuigan, N. (online). Queering Accounting Spaces: Lived, Embodied, and Violent Experiences of a Gay and Black Accounting Brazilian Lecturer. Gender, Work and Organization, https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13219

The objective of this paper is to critically reflect upon queer experiences in the academic workplace, answering how the intersectionality of a gay and Black accounting lecturer encounters the presence of his body in a capitalist workplace. Drawing o... Read More about Queering Accounting Spaces: Lived, Embodied, and Violent Experiences of a Gay and Black Accounting Brazilian Lecturer.

Beyond conventional financialization: Intersectional insights and Indigenous responses to financial inequality in the UK (2024)
Journal Article
Ghafran, C., & Yasmin, S. (2024). Beyond conventional financialization: Intersectional insights and Indigenous responses to financial inequality in the UK. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 100, Article 102771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2024.102771

This study leverages Bourdieu's concepts of capital and habitus, alongside an intersectionality framework, to examine the financialization of daily life within the British-Pakistani diaspora. Amidst the escalating pervasiveness of financialization in... Read More about Beyond conventional financialization: Intersectional insights and Indigenous responses to financial inequality in the UK.

The power of oversight: Institutional investors as moderators of the earnings quality- information asymmetry nexus in Europe (2024)
Journal Article
Eliwa, Y., Haslam, J., Abraham, S., & Saleh, A. (2025). The power of oversight: Institutional investors as moderators of the earnings quality- information asymmetry nexus in Europe. International Journal of Accounting and Information Management, 33(1), 68-103. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJAIM-01-2024-0029

Purpose – While there is some evidence of a relationship between earnings quality and information asymmetry, there is limited evidence on the moderating role of institutional investors in this relationship. To fill this gap, this study aims to examin... Read More about The power of oversight: Institutional investors as moderators of the earnings quality- information asymmetry nexus in Europe.

Diversity, dialogic pedagogy and intersubjectivity in the classroom: Contributions from the Global South (2024)
Journal Article
Dos Santos, T. A., Lopes, I. F., & Mcguigan, N. (2024). Diversity, dialogic pedagogy and intersubjectivity in the classroom: Contributions from the Global South. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 100, Article 102770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2024.102770

Diversity of voice is contentious in accounting education with marginalised groups remaining on the periphery. This study reflects on significant issues of diversity, dialogic pedagogy and inter-subjective exchanges by investigating an unpleasant tea... Read More about Diversity, dialogic pedagogy and intersubjectivity in the classroom: Contributions from the Global South.

Mediating ESG: Mapping individual responses to a changing field (2024)
Journal Article
Millar, J., Mueller, F., & Carter, C. (2024). Mediating ESG: Mapping individual responses to a changing field. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 100, Article 102766. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2024.102766

Previous studies have called for more research into the human dimension of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. Drawing on formal interviews and informal conversations with 57 fund managers and investment analysts working in the city... Read More about Mediating ESG: Mapping individual responses to a changing field.

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: Exploring resilience in the third sector (2024)
Journal Article
Hyndman, N., Lapsley, I., & Liguori, M. (2024). The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: Exploring resilience in the third sector. Financial Accountability and Management, 40(3), 247-259. https://doi.org/10.1111/faam.12400

This Special Issue is based on a selection of papers initially presented at the conference on “Resilience and the Third Sector” (Institute of Public Sector Accounting Research, University of Edinburgh, November 2022). The third sector is pervasive in... Read More about The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: Exploring resilience in the third sector.

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, 36(9-10), 1210-1231. 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.

Participation Strategies and Ethical Considerations in NGO led Community-Based Conservation Initiatives (2024)
Journal Article
Ghafran, C., & Yasmin, S. (2025). Participation Strategies and Ethical Considerations in NGO led Community-Based Conservation Initiatives. Journal of Business Ethics, 196(3), 659-675. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05665-4

This study examines the participation strategies of an environmental non-governmental organization (NGO) in community-based conservation (CBC) initiatives in the developing country context of Pakistan. We use local Pakistani concepts and terms to int... Read More about Participation Strategies and Ethical Considerations in NGO led Community-Based Conservation Initiatives.

Reflecting on Management Change in the UK Public Sector: Was it all Worth it? (2024)
Book Chapter
Hyndman, N., & Liguori, M. (2024). Reflecting on Management Change in the UK Public Sector: Was it all Worth it?. In I. Lapsley, & P. Miller (Eds.), The Resilience of New Public Management (317-344). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198883814.003.0014

Over almost three decades, central governments in many countries have engaged in reforms aimed at improving public-sector practices, with a main area of change involving accounting processes. Such changes (particularly with respect to financial accou... Read More about Reflecting on Management Change in the UK Public Sector: Was it all Worth it?.

Ministerial Directions (2023)
Report
Ferry, L., Murphie, A., & Midgley, H. (2023). Ministerial Directions. [No known commissioning body]