This paper examines the discursive mise-en-sens (Corvellec & Risberg, 2007) tactics civil society organizations (CSOs) use to influence strategic development of companies. Drawing on the case study of Suez- Environment, a major water distribution company in the world, we show that CSOs can play...

Exploiting existing resources or exploring new ones is an old dilemma. As exploitation consists in “the refinement and extension of existing competences, technologies and paradigms” (March, 1991, p. 85) and exploration means “experimentation with new alternatives” (March, 1991, p. 85),...

Profit manipulation has been largely studied through Positive Accounting Theory (PAT). However, the weakness of the results obtained would suggest using different theoretical and methodological approaches to examine this subject. In France, management controllers play a central role in profit...

Our paper is based on an ethnographic approach. One of the authors has conducted an ethnographic study at TechCo, a multinational aeronautic company, during 4 months. Following the actors, actants and allies at TechCo, we will show that two institutional trajectories compete for controlling the...

During the last decades, research in the field of management control has been characterised by the emergence of a great variety of trends which are referred to as “critical”. This study reviews critical management control research in Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) from 1976...