In the middle of the twentieth century, banks changed from 'closed' designs signifying wealth, security, and safety to 'open' designs signifying hospitality, honesty, and transparency as the perception of money changed from a passive physical substance to be slowly accumulated to an active...

This paper starts out with a study of accounting practices in a Public Transport Organisation. A performative perspective has generated some interesting findings and leads on to some points that can be made. <p> I have followed how activities in the organization have been translated and distributed...</p>

Denna undersökning handlar om livet med psoriasis. Den bygger på fyra intervjuer med individer med diagnosen psoriasis. Tolknings- arbetet är baserat på idéer hämtade från Grounded theory (1967). Resultatet visar att det handlar om en grundläggande social process – att lära känna och...

This paper aims to trace the development of management accounting systems (MAS) in a Portuguese bank, where an activity based costing system (ABC) has been trialled for implementation over the past few years, as a means to improving the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of employee activity....

References to ‘customers’ have become commonplace in the policy discourses within UK government and other public sector bodies. It is a working assumption of UK public sector management that the concept of the ‘customer’ can be applied to any public sector service agency or department;...

The recent rapid growth of China’s economy has reopened historical debate about the extent to which it prospered during the Míng and Qīng dynasties (1368-1911) through developing a significant market orientation on the base of its underlying agricultural bureaucratic feudalism. As a...