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Beyond intentionality in accounting regulation: habitual strategizing by the IASB

Stenka, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3103-2307 (2022) Beyond intentionality in accounting regulation: habitual strategizing by the IASB. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 88. 102294. ISSN 1045-2354

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2021.102294

Abstract/Summary

Adopting critical discourse analysis and Bourdieu’s theorization of dispositional use of language, the present study challenges a common assumption in the accounting standard setting literature, namely, that regulators’ discourse is purposely and deliberately deployed. I draw on cognitive sociolinguistics to empirically explore the specific manifestations of habitual, that is, pre-reflexive legitimation rhetoric in IASB regulatory texts. My analysis shows how taken-for-granted discursive rationalizations and linguistic forms are operationalized. I then argue that the language observed in regulatory texts, which can be considered as examples of ‘collective thinking artefacts’, enacts standard setters’ institutionalized patterns of reasoning associated with their social position. This critical perspective on the subconscious use of rhetoric generates a series of further questions regarding the lack of reflexivity in accounting regulatory processes.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Henley Business School > Business Informatics, Systems and Accounting
ID Code:96068
Publisher:Elsevier

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