La comptabilité joue un rôle important dans les politiques économiques nationales et internationales et analysées dans le contexte de la mondialisation économique, l’harmonisation des normes comptables, a donné lieu au fil du temps, a une source continue de controverse. L'évolution de...

Drawing on a framework of deinstitutionalization, this study explores the abandonment of budgeting through a multiple-case study of four companies. The findings illustrate how a number of antecedents to deinstitutionalization acted in each setting and show that abandonment was only achieved...

The purpose of this article is to explore the role of instruments in the transformation of institutional logics and their associated practices at the micro level. Based on an ethnographic study, this article compares two working groups — one responsible for equity and the other for...

The first part of the paper presents the specificities of management control in service activities. The second part of the paper is more specifically dedicated to the assessment of discretionary activities; it proposes a general framework for the evaluation of discretionary activities before...

This article presents a summary of the Strategic Management Accounting (SMA) literature. In its first part, the article shows how authors define SMA (by its characteristics, its practices and methods) and compares SMA to Strategic Cost Management (SCM). The second part of the article discusses...

German Abstract: Das neue Recht hat keine konkrete Regel zur Rechnungslegung von Forschungs- und Entwicklungskosten (F&E-Kosten). Zwar enthält Art. 959 Abs. 2 OR die allgemeinen Bilanzansatzkriterien, doch für ein komplexes Thema wie F&E liefert diese Bestimmung kaum Anhaltspunkte....

French Abstract: L’objectif de l’article est de montrer le rôle des systèmes de contrôle de gestion (SCG) dans la construction des relations inter-organisationnelles (RIO). S’appuyant sur l’étude qualitative de l’implantation d’un tableau de bord dans le secteur médico-social,...

The purpose of this work is to draw a panorama of the evolution of the restructuring strategies of the transnational firms in the world wine industry across the period 1980-2005. The main forms of development of these firms - mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures - are identified based on an...