Professions and Professional Service Firms

Index

academic knowledge 111, 119–20

academics 86, 89, 90

accountability 35, 36, 94, 95

accountancy profession 3–4, 16, 31, 32, 36, 38, 94, 113, 124; Big Four/Five firms 36, 124, 161, 163, 165, 169; commercialised professionalism 73, 77, 78, 138, 139; differentiated markets 76, 77; gender issues see female lawyers/accountants and gender; and global financial crisis 17; green accounting 53; and lawyers, disputes over jurisdiction 29; long hours culture 142–4, 145, 148, 149, 150; multinational firms 139; outsourcing and offshoring 37; political identification of accountants 80; see also regulation and governance of accountancy profession

Accounting, Organizations and Society 1

accumulation, regimes of 75, 82

advertising agencies 112, 124

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