.... Editor’s note: Accepted by Anna Gold, under the Senior Editorship of W. Robert Knechel. 30 03 2023 26 02 2025 10 03 2025 2025 audit quality audit teams boundary theory coach role preparer role apprenticeship model apprenticeship norms THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW Vol. XX...

... and experimental evidence of the importance of communication style in the context of audit team culture. Our first two studies provide evidence that audit staff perceive assertive upward communication as risky and prefer to communicate passively, especially in less autonomous team cultures. Our third study...

...Mark W. Nelson; Chad A. Proell ABSTRACT This paper examines audit team leader reactions to auditors who speak up about potentially important audit issues. Study 1 is a survey of interacting audit teams and provides evidence of higher performance evaluations for auditors who speak up. Studies 2, 3...

...Mark W. Nelson; Chad A. Proell; Amy E. Randel ABSTRACT This paper reports five studies examining audit team members' willingness to raise audit issues. The first study is a survey of interacting audit teams that provides evidence that team members are more willing to speak up when they view...