This paper has a methodological purpose, as we are aiming to show practices of accounting research designing. In that heuristic, we are basing our argument on Burrell’s and Morgan’s (1979), Feyerabend’s (1975), Quattrone’s (2000, 2004b) and Lowe’s (2004a, b) epistemo-methodological...

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...

Management control is a very difficult task when applied to innovation. For some researchers, it's even an impossible mission. Despite this, our paper presents a theoretical framework issued from a literature review and based on Simons research (1995). This framework is used to understand how...

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 analyze two innovations that have had different...

The dissertation purports to address how every day conduct reflects influences of ethnicity on Accountability practices. Accounting is treated as a discursive system in which individuals speak about themselves in Terms of asset-liability, debit-credit, income, value. Thence, I am purporting...

Gérer est une activité sérieuse qui ne tolère pas l'approximation. Le gestionnaire qui se respecte se doit ainsi de « gérer en bon père de famille ». Gérer est un acte rationnel qui consiste à éliminer de la prise de décision l'impulsion, les rêveries et les spéculations. Pour...