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Navigating Through the Spatial and Institutional Contradictions of Public Audit Oversight

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  • Mouna Hazgui
  • Bertrand Malsch

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This study revisits the actions of the French audit regulator (H3C) and the French profession over the 2003–2013 period in response to the regulatory transformations that occurred both in the national and transnational space. Our analysis highlights how these actors have navigated through the spatial and institutional contradictions that characterize public audit oversight in order to manage variable and opposing interests from one space to another. In particular, we show how conflicting national and transnational conceptions of professionalism and commercialism have developed to support different regulatory agendas. Our analysis of the spatial dynamics of public audit oversight allows us to propose a much less confrontational representation of the relationships between public audit regulators and the audit profession. We maintain that more attention should be paid to the spatial variants of commercialism and professionalism to better understand the development of audit regulation.

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  • Mouna Hazgui & Bertrand Malsch, 2020. "Navigating Through the Spatial and Institutional Contradictions of Public Audit Oversight," European Accounting Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(4), pages 781-802, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:euract:v:29:y:2020:i:4:p:781-802
    DOI: 10.1080/09638180.2019.1683461
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