Purpose this study focuses on the policy of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) launched in the chemical industry in the 1980s and known as “Responsible Care”. The debate surrounding this issue prompts us to question the ever-changing nature of this policy and the way to measure the...

During the first sixty years or so of the twentieth century, a number of accounting techniques were developed for use in the management of business. One of those new techniques was budgetary control. This paper examines the dissemination and diffusion of budgetary control in France and Britain...

Budgetary control has developed in France since the 1930s. If the initial importation from the United States was rapid, subsequent development was slow. Diffusion of the technique occurred through a number of mechanisms: professional reviews, books, consultants, think tanks, and through...

In the period 1930-1960, steps toward budgetary control were taken in two of the most important French companies. In each case they were led by consulting firms with common origins but the resulting applications of control turned out to be markedly different. This diversity is difficult to...

Purpose this study focuses on the policy of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) launched in the chemical industry in the 1980s and known as “Responsible Care”. The debate surrounding this issue prompts us to question the ever-changing nature of this policy and the way to measure the...

L'industrie chimique a mis en place de longue date un programme de gestion et de prévention des risques dénommé “Responsible Care” (« Engagement de Progrès » en Français). Ce programme préfigure le thème du développement durable apparu au cours des années 1980. Au travers de la...

What are the determinants of accounting and management control innovations diffusion ? This paper attempts to answer such a question by first giving a definition to the concept of managerial innovation. Second it compares the results of the study of the diffusion of three innovations of this...

La prise en compte de la responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise pose la question des moyens d’évaluer sa performance en la matière. L’exemple d’Areva.