Auditing and the production of legitimacy

Science in Action

1987 • 4,241 citations

The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification

1998 • 3,532 citations

The audit society : rituals of verification

1999 • 3,423 citations

Political Power beyond the State: Problematics of Government

1992 • 2,968 citations

Political power beyond the State: problematics of government

2010 • 2,857 citations

Knowledge and Social Imagery

1977 • 2,361 citations

Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice

1988 • 1,321 citations

On the Microfoundations of Macrosociology

1981 • 1,101 citations

Getting comfortable with the numbers: Auditing and the micro-production of macro-order

1993 • 387 citations

Organising the profession: A theoretical and historical examination of the development of the major accountancy bodies in the U.K.

1986 • 387 citations

Internal control—integrated framework: who is responsible?

2001 • 382 citations

Making things auditable

1996 • 379 citations

The power of “independence”: defending and extending the jurisdiction of accounting in the United Kingdom

1995 • 303 citations

Proper compromises: The management control dilemma in public accounting and its impact on auditor behavior

1991 • 279 citations

Expertise and the construction of relevance: Accountants and environmental audit

1997 • 268 citations

Auditing organizations through a strategic-systems lens : the KPMG Business Measurement Process

1997 • 206 citations

The legalistic organization

1994 • 184 citations

The imagery and reality of peer review in the U.S.: Insights from institutional theory

1996 • 173 citations

From techniques to ideologies: An alternative perspective on the audit function

1990 • 162 citations

Efficiency audit: An assembly of rationalities and programmes

1998 • 154 citations

The Microfoundations of Macrosociology

1981 • 154 citations

Knowing efficiency: the enactment of efficiency in efficiency auditing

1999 • 146 citations

Reinventing auditing, redefining consulting and independence

1998 • 138 citations

Auditing, Expertise and the Sociology of Technique

1995 • 132 citations

Will auditors take over the world? Program, technique and the verification of everything

2000 • 125 citations

Auditing, hermeneutics, and subjectivity

1994 • 123 citations

“Real-izing” the benefits of new technologies as a source of audit evidence: An interpretive field study

1996 • 116 citations

The Legalistic organization

1994 • 95 citations

Sampling and the abstraction of knowledge in the auditing profession: An extended institutional theory perspective

1993 • 94 citations

Materiality judgments and audit firm culture: Social-behavioral and political perspectives

1994 • 89 citations

From common sense to expertise: Reflections on the prehistory of audit sampling

1992 • 88 citations

Inherent risk assessment and audit firm technology: A contrast in world theories

1991 • 72 citations

The audit implosion: regulating risk from the inside

2000 • 70 citations

Audit the taxpayer, not the return: Tax auditing as an expression game

1996 • 62 citations

Academic auditing research: an exploratory investigation into its usefulness

2001 • 59 citations

THE POLITICS OF FINANCIAL AUDITING

1993 • 32 citations

Audit research—looking beyond North America

2001 • 19 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations