| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The “new public management” in the 1980s: Variations on a theme | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1995 | 2,540 |
| 2 | Management control systems design within its organizational context: findings from contingency-based research and directions for the future | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2003 | 2,000 |
| 3 | Revisiting the relation between environmental performance and environmental disclosure: An empirical analysis | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2008 | 1,917 |
| 4 | Determinants of corporate social responsibility disclosure: An application of stakeholder theory | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1992 | 1,534 |
| 5 | The relations among environmental disclosure, environmental performance, and economic performance: a simultaneous equations approach | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2004 | 1,315 |
| 6 | Managing Public Impressions: Environmental Disclosures in Annual Reports | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1998 | 1,253 |
| 7 | The role of environmental disclosures as tools of legitimacy: A research note | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2007 | 1,204 |
| 8 | Accounting and the construction of the governable person | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1987 | 1,140 |
| 9 | The roles of accounting in organizations and society | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1980 | 1,093 |
| 10 | The relation between environmental performance and environmental disclosure: a research note | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2002 | 1,042 |
| 11 | Intra-industry environmental disclosures in response to the Alaskan oil spill: A note on legitimacy theory | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1992 | 1,014 |
| 12 | Experimental research in financial accounting | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2002 | 937 |
| 13 | The archeology of accounting systems | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1987 | 910 |
| 14 | Management control systems and strategy: A critical review | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1997 | 863 |
| 15 | An evaluation of environmental disclosures made in corporate annual reports | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1982 | 792 |
| 16 | Is accounting for sustainability actually accounting for sustainability…and how would we know? An exploration of narratives of organisations and the planet | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2010 | 789 |
| 17 | Financial accounting: In communicating reality, we construct reality | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1988 | 764 |
| 18 | Management control systems and strategy: A resource-based perspective | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2006 | 761 |
| 19 | The contingency theory of management accounting: Achievement and prognosis | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1980 | 755 |
| 20 | The impact of corporate characteristics on social responsibility disclosure: A typology and frequency-based analysis | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1987 | 749 |
| 21 | On trying to study accounting in the contexts in which it operates | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1983 | 727 |
| 22 | Control of inter-organizational relationships: evidence on appropriation concerns and coordination requirements | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2004 | 724 |
| 23 | Performance implications of strategic performance measurement in financial services firms | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2003 | 718 |
| 24 | Accounting control systems and business strategy: An empirical analysis | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1987 | 680 |
| 25 | Accounting systems and systems of accountability — understanding accounting practices in their organisational contexts | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1985 | 677 |
| 26 | The role of management control systems in creating competitive advantage: New perspectives | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1990 | 675 |
| 27 | The chameleon of accountability: Forms and discourses | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1995 | 669 |
| 28 | Integrative strategic performance measurement systems, strategic alignment of manufacturing, learning and strategic outcomes: an exploratory study | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2005 | 653 |
| 29 | The effects of the interactive use of management control systems on product innovation | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2004 | 643 |
| 30 | The social accounting project and Accounting Organizations and Society Privileging engagement, imaginings, new accountings and pragmatism over critique? | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2002 | 639 |
| 31 | The effects of monetary incentives on effort and task performance: theories, evidence, and a framework for research | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2002 | 614 |
| 32 | Accounting and the examination: A genealogy of disciplinary power | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1986 | 596 |
| 33 | Governing by numbers: Figuring out democracy | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1991 | 595 |
| 34 | Institutional rationality and practice variation: New directions in the institutional analysis of practice | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2008 | 586 |
| 35 | An empirical analysis of the levers of control framework | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2007 | 572 |
| 36 | Doing qualitative field research in management accounting: Positioning data to contribute to theory | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2006 | 563 |
| 37 | The possibilities of accountability | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1991 | 560 |
| 38 | Organized hypocrisy, organizational façades, and sustainability reporting | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2015 | 555 |
| 39 | Hofstede never studied culture | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2003 | 554 |
| 40 | Accounting in its social context: Towards a history of value added in the United Kingdom | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1985 | 553 |
| 41 | Accounting, professions and regulation: Locating the sites of professionalization | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2006 | 547 |
| 42 | Social disclosure, financial disclosure and the cost of equity capital | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2001 | 546 |
| 43 | The language of US corporate environmental disclosure | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2010 | 541 |
| 44 | Auditing and the production of legitimacy | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2003 | 527 |
| 45 | Media legitimacy and corporate environmental communication | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2009 | 527 |
| 46 | Management accounting systems, perceived environmental uncertainty and organization structure: An empirical investigation | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1984 | 524 |
| 47 | The crisis of fair-value accounting: Making sense of the recent debate | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2009 | 518 |
| 48 | Accounting numbers as “inscription”: Action at a distance and the development of accounting | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1992 | 511 |
| 49 | Accounting and environmentalism: An exploration of the challenge of gently accounting for accountability, transparency and sustainability | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 1992 | 506 |
| 50 | Making things the same: Gases, emission rights and the politics of carbon markets | Accounting, Organizations and Society | 2009 | 506 |
