Playing the Big Four recruitment game: The tension between illusio and reflexivity

L Daoust - Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2020 - Elsevier
Using Bourdieu's sociology, this study investigates students' experience of the public
accounting recruitment process. It is based on interviews with Canadian undergraduates …

The Big 4 under pressure: Scanning work in transnational fields

RC Christensen, L Seabrooke - Contemporary Accounting …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate what happens when accounting professionals come under external pressure
to change established practices. We focus on corporate tax transparency, which has …

Learning the rules of the game: How is corporate masculinity learned and enacted by male professionals from nonprivileged backgrounds?

A Giazitzoglu, D Muzio - Gender, Work & Organization, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Focusing on the lived intersection of social class and hegemonic masculinity, this article
uses data elicited over a 5‐year period to analyze the experiences of 10 white male …

Linguistic tensions in a professional accounting field: English linguistic capital, hierarchy, prestige, and distinction among accountants

D Aburous, R Kamla - Contemporary Accounting Research, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the processes by which English linguistic capital is legitimized as
integral to professional accountants' distinction, prestige, and status in Jordan. Drawing on …

Exclusive talent management: unveiling the mechanisms of the construction of an elite community

D Bonneton, M Festing… - European …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper aims at contributing to the talent management (TM) and organisation research
fields by investigating the mechanisms of elite construction through an exclusive TM …

The making of problematic tax regulation: A Bourdieusian perspective

R Ormeño-Pérez, L Oats - Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2024 - Elsevier
The implementation of thorny or problematic regulation is challenging for both regulators
and regulatees. The reasons for the existence of problematic regulation are not to be found …

Professions and inequality: Challenges, controversies, and opportunities

L Ashley, M Boussebaa, S Friedman… - … of Professions and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
On the basis of the EGOS 2021 sub-plenary on 'Professions and Inequality: Challenges,
Controversies, and Opportunities', the presenters and panellists wrote four short essays on …

[HTML][HTML] Imagining cooperative tax regulation: Common origins, divergent paths

D De Widt, L Oats - Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2024 - Elsevier
In many countries, relational field dynamics between tax administrators and corporate
taxpayers have undergone significant changes in recent years. We conceive of cooperative …

Financialisation as a strategic action field: An historically informed field study of governance reforms in Chinese state-owned enterprises

S Modell, CL Yang - Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper extends extant research on financialisation, which has mainly evolved in
advanced capitalist economies, through an historically informed field study of governance …

Warriors in suits: A Bourdieusian perspective on the construction and practice of military masculinity of Korean men

J Lee, M Shirmohammadi… - Gender, work & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Within masculinity scholarship, there is a gap about how masculinity carries over from a
broad social context to an organizational context. This article explores the construction and …