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Translations In Regulatory Space: The Arenas Of Regulatory Innovation In Accounting Standard Setting, Yasmine Chahed
Translations In Regulatory Space: The Arenas Of Regulatory Innovation In Accounting Standard Setting, Yasmine Chahed
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This paper investigates the conditions of possibility for innovation in regulatory space. The first-time inclusion of narrative reporting on the agenda of the British Accounting Standards Board (ASB) is studied in terms of a complex web of discursive schemes, which co-constituted the regulatory issue and the context in which it emerged. By exploring the discursive level of accounting reform, the approach shows how the emergence of narrative reporting on the agenda of the ASB was mediated in a historically specific constellation of formal institutional structures, professional trajectories, and changing conceptions of the roles and purposes of accounting in business management …