Accounting in Identity Regulation: Producing the Appropriate Worker

Juhani Vaivio, Marko Järvenpää and Antti Rautiainen

European Accounting Review, 2023, vol. 32, issue 3, 693-716

Abstract: It is acknowledged that identity regulation in organizations relies on discursive resources. This study moves beyond discourse – illustrating how discourse and accounting measurements are mobilized together in revising identity. Measurement produces persistence, clarity, transparency and comparability, as well as direction: Accounting’s quantitative knowledge ‘amplifies’ discourse. We explain the Great Alliance between words and numbers in a case study addressing events in an organization’s transformation. This extends our understanding of what takes place on the interface between identity and accounting.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/09638180.2021.1997780

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