Understanding management accounting practices: A personal journey

RW Scapens - The British Accounting Review, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the changes which have taken place in management accounting
research over the last 35 years. It traces the author's personal journey as a management …

Institutional research on performance measurement and management in the public sector accounting literature: a review and assessment

S Modell - Financial Accountability & Management, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews the evolution of institutional research on performance measurement and
management (PMM) in the public sector accounting literature. An assessment of the …

[PDF][PDF] Quality in qualitative studies: The case of validity, reliability and generalizability

AM Ali, H Yusof - Issues in social and environmental accounting, 2011 - academia.edu
The concern over the subject of quality judgement of qualitative research has led to the
emergence of several varied positions. Whichever labels used in describing the positions …

Qualitative management accounting research: Assessing deliverables and relevance

LD Parker - Critical perspectives on accounting, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper examines the positioning of qualitative research to date in the field of
management accounting. It offers a critical reflection and an appraisal of its profile relative to …

Social and environmental accounting, organisational change and management accounting: A processual view

M Contrafatto, J Burns - Management Accounting Research, 2013 - Elsevier
Consistent with calls for in-depth studies of social and environmental accounting and
reporting (SEAR) intervention (Bebbington, 2007, Fraser, 2012, Contrafatto, 2012), our …

Institutional theories in management accounting change: contributions, issues and paths for development

JA Ribeiro, RW Scapens - Qualitative research in accounting & …, 2006 - emerald.com
To explore the contributions made by two strands of institutional research that have been
applied to the study of management accounting change:“old institutional economics” and …

Accrual accounting in EU local governments: One method, several approaches

V Pina, L Torres, A Yetano - european accounting Review, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
This paper seeks to measure the degree of accrual implementation in EU local government
accounting systems and also tries to give an answer to the question of why accrual …

Corporatisation and accounting change: The role of accounting and accountants in a Malaysian public utility

AK Nor-Aziah, RW Scapens - Management Accounting Research, 2007 - Elsevier
Using an explanatory case study, this paper presents an in-depth analysis of a Malaysian
public utility which was required to transform itself into a self-financing, efficient and …

Control and change—Analysing the process of institutionalisation

C Dambrin, C Lambert, S Sponem - Management Accounting Research, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper studies the process by which a change in the institutional logic of an
organisational field diffuses through the management control system of a firm. The …

On the emergence of strategic management accounting: an institutional perspective

Y Ma, M Tayles - Accounting and Business research, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Strategic management accounting (SMA) has been presented as an efficacious approach to
strategy formulation and implementation. It also suggests accountants move away from …