(VF)Les organisations réagissent parfois aux pressions institutionnelles en découplant leurs structures formelles de leurs activités réelles. Ce phénomène de découplage est en fait un phénomène complexe qui masque des motivations diverses et des comportements encore peu étudiés. En...

The budget is being more and more criticized. Its abandonment is even suggested. This would be the failure of a management tool that was born in the 1930s and that had since a great success. It seems too early to tell whether this criticism will lead to its disappearance. However, we can...

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...

Cet article a pour objet de présenter les principaux enjeux liés à la production de connaissances avec la grounded theory en contrôle de gestion. La recherche est une étude bibliographique confrontant les pratiques de la grounded theory avec les recommandations de ses fondateurs (Glaser et...

Le budget est de plus en plus critiqué. Certains suggèrent même qu'il puisse être abandonné. Cela marquerait l'échec d'un outil apparu dans les années 1930 et qui avait connu un grand succès depuis. Il est encore trop tôt pour savoir si les critiques conduiront à sa disparition. Mais...

This doctoral thesis examines Robert’s (1991) conceptualization of accountability in conflicting situations. In organizational contexts, individuals give account in two ways; at a distance, to show that their actions are aligned with the main goals of the company – hierarchical...

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...

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...

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...

Three dimensions characterize a management control system: the nature of the involvement of operational managers, the degree of customization of the underlying tools and the relationship with the compensation policy. This characterization further formalizes the distinction between diagnostic and...