This study analyzes the impact of sustainable development leadership on firm performance. The context of the empirical analysis is the European region between 2010 and 2018. Sustainable development leaders are defined as the firms included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for Europe. To control for endogeneity problems caused by self-selection bias in the sample, […]
Using Q methodology to open the “black box” of corporate governance
Corporate governance (CG) scholars have long expressed concern over mainstream research’s theoretical and methodological limitations, which often rely on oversimplified “input and output” understandings that focus solely on achieving an optimal balance between variables. This approach is particularly problematic because it tends to prioritize the narrowly defined financial interests of shareholders, leading to an overabundance […]
Thirty Years of Village Corruption Research: Accounting and Smart Villages for Village Sustainability as Future Research Direction
As the research on national corruption continues to expand, village corruption research has gained attention in the public eye in the last 10 years. A growing number of researchers have called for a more extensive discussion on village corruption. In response, this paper conducts a comprehensive review of village corruption research to portray the trend […]
Applying international standards in France: how professional accountants manage IFRS complexity?
The application of IFRS does not take shape in an institutional vacuum and may call into question international accounting harmonization. The authors aim at studying the interpretation’s process of international standards (IFRS) by French accounting professionals. To do so, they studied 174 professional articles published in the Revue Française de Comptabilité (RFC) and by major […]
Commensuration of health-care quality standards through hospital accreditation: from measurement weapon to management tool?
The purpose of this study is to examine the management perceptions towards calculative practices behind the reconstruction of a mandatory hospital accreditation (HA) system that transforms multiple facets of health-care quality into a single performance index. This study contributes to the sociology of quantification mobilising the concept of commensuration as a social process to reflect […]