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Ways of not seeing: visibility, blindness, and the transparency game 看不见的方式:可见性、盲目性和透明游戏
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal  Pub Date : 2024-09-13 DOI: 10.1108/aaaj-05-2023-6458
Jonathan Tweedie, Matteo Ronzani
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Accounting for racial inequality in South Africa with the black economic empowerment policy 用黑人经济赋权政策解释南非的种族不平等问题
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal  Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI: 10.1108/aaaj-05-2023-6478
Bongani Munkuli, Mona Nikidehaghani, Liangbo Ma, Millicent Chang
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Boundary objects: sustainability reporting and the production of organizational stability 边界对象:可持续性报告与组织稳定性的形成
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal  Pub Date : 2024-09-06 DOI: 10.1108/aaaj-08-2021-5391
Manuel Fernández Chulián, Nicolas Garcia-Torea, Carlos Larrinaga, Jan Bebbington
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Responding to employee-based race inequalities in National Health Service (England): accountability and the Workforce Race Equality Standard 应对国家卫生服务机构(英格兰)中基于雇员的种族不平等:问责制和劳动力种族平等标准
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal  Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1108/aaaj-08-2023-6621
Alpa Dhanani, Penny Chaidali, Nina Sharma, Evangelia Varoutsa
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The failure of the United Kingdom’s accounting and fiscal governance 英国会计和财政管理的失败
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal  Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1108/aaaj-06-2023-6513
David Heald, Ron Hodges
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Accounting for digital promises: restoring and transforming promissory narratives 数字承诺的核算:恢复和转变承诺叙事
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal  Pub Date : 2024-08-28 DOI: 10.1108/aaaj-12-2022-6232
Martin Carlsson-Wall, Christofer Laurell, Oliver Lindqvist Parbratt, Mart Ots
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The contronymity of project accounting for performing the relevance of project outcomes 项目核算与项目成果相关性的对立性
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal  Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1108/aaaj-10-2022-6103
Tim Neerup Themsen, Peter Holm Jacobsen, Kjell Tryggestad
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Incarnation and decay: reconciling the organizational decision-making and organizational institutional theory perspectives on budgetary research 化身与衰变:调和预算研究中的组织决策和组织机构理论观点
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal  Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1108/aaaj-07-2023-6554
Zahirul Hoque, Matt Kaufman
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Accounting talks – how operations managers nuance their frontstage performance with backstage negotiations 会计会谈--运营经理如何通过后台谈判细微调整前台表现
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal  Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1108/aaaj-06-2023-6504
Amanda Curry
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Field-configuring events and the failure to standardise accounting for carbon emissions 实地配置事件和碳排放核算标准化的失败
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal  Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1108/aaaj-07-2022-5946
Sophie Giordano-Spring, Carlos Larrinaga, Géraldine Rivière-Giordano
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