Le contrôle organisationnel s'inscrit dans une double relation avec la stratégie et l'action. La théorie de la structuration d'Anthony Giddens permet de dépasser l'incompatibilité existant jusqu'alors entre les paradigmes structuro-fonctionnalistes et ceux privilégiant l'acteur. La...

Management control practices are influenced by different professional groups, their interpretations and power struggles. We study a company whose strategy and daily management rely on non financial stakes, notably upon the concept of “brand”. We show how management accountants introduce a...

What have been published in management control and management accounting in France for ten years and what did we learn from it ? In this paper we tried to answer to these questions by examining scientific production published in Finance Contrôle Stratégie and Comptabilité Contrôle Audit, the...

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...

The emergence of the concept of ’sustainable development’leads companies to redefine the notion of performance and to implement practices to manage it.An exploratory research, undertaken in five multinational companies, highlights changes in their management systems and shows that companies...

This paper examines how buyers control their suppliers in asymmetric interfirm transactional relationships. The conceptual framework is based on two perspectives –Transaction Cost Economics and Relational Exchange View. The empirical research analyses three case studies of buyer firms: one in...

The present paper draws on the main issues in the production of scientific knowledge based upon grounded theory in management accounting research. This piece of work is a bibliographic study confronting grounded theory practices with the expectations of its founders (Glaser et Strauss, 1967; Strauss...

Budgetary process have been highly criticized for many years. Through seven case studies, this paper tries to assess the relevance of these criticisms. Two answers are defined. First, we show that criticisms are concentrated on few roles attributed to budgets. Second, thanks to a analytic...