This research is concerned with the diffusion of management accounting innovations viewed as a process of actor …-network building and translation. The aim is to better understand the nature of accounting change. Using Actor-Network Theory (ANT), we …

) critiqued their homogeneity and poor ability to enhance our understanding of accounting. Knowledge claims articulated, claims … had failed at explaining the determinants of accounting situations and practices. These two critiques called for … alternative cultural/diversity studies in accounting research, promoting new settings, theoretical frameworks, and methods. In …

structure of the accounting research. …

accounting and controlling: • the creation of models which will accept imperfect information, • the effect of the use of … relationships between the data. Indeed, we have seen that imperfect accounting data has led to a radical reappraisal and extension … of the principal of double- entry accounting in order to obtain fuzzified financial statements. At the same time …