This article is a contribution to the study of the spread of management innovations, methods and rhetorics. It particularly concerns the influence of ideological and political factors, which have so far mostly escaped in-depth study. In particular, we seek to understand to what extent a critique...

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...

This thesis analyses the relationship between strategy and management control systems. Its aim is to refine Simons’ four levers of control framework in studying the interactions between top and middle managers around management control tools in order to form and implement the strategy of the...

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...

Nous sommes entrés dans l'ère des sociétés de la connaissance qui nous amène à considérer les activités de recherche avec une acuité nouvelle. Exercée jusqu'alors en marge de la société productive, la recherche s'est vue demandée des comptes sur son efficacité et son utilité. Les...

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...