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Live-in and Burn-out? : Migrantische Pflegekräfte in deutschen Haushalten

Becker, Karina - In: Arbeit 25 (2016) 1-2, pp. 21-45

Zusammenfassung Aktuell ist zu beobachten, dass deutsche Familien für die Verrichtung häuslicher Pflegearbeit zunehmend auf Pflegekräfte aus Osteuropa zurückgreifen. Aufgrund der schwachen Regulierung und des Charakters der Arbeit sind die Pflegekräfte darauf verwiesen, ihre Arbeits- und...

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Power and performance : Institutional embeddedness and performance management in a Chinese local government organization

Yang, ChunLei; Modell, Sven - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 26 (2012) 1, pp. 101-132

of power with particular reference to the ability of individual managers to balance between more or less … pursuing a degree of organizational change, but was ultimately transferred as the power relationships forged through her … nurturing critical power relationships. Research limitations/implications – The empirical analysis underscores the importance of …

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The examination of power and politics in a conservation organisation

Powell, Lisa; Tilt, Carol - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 30 (2017) 3, pp. 482-509

the role of power and politics in its demise. Design/methodology/approach The “processual” or “contextualist” (Burns, 2000 … documents prepared either by or about the organisation. Findings Examining the inter-relationships of power and politics amongst … effectively transition the power held over resources, decision-making and meanings from the old to the new managers proved to …

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Accounting for austerity: the Troika in the Eurozone

Cohen, Sandra; Guillamón, María-Dolores; Lapsley, Irvine - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 28 (2015) 6, pp. 966-992

theory intertwined with power and offers insights into how meaningful they are in explaining the dramatic influence of …

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The interface of power and charity in the government of poor : A case from the Italian context in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries

Servalli, Stefania - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 26 (2013) 8, pp. 1306-1341

Purpose – Within the interface between power and charity, the purpose of this paper is to enhance an understanding of … investigation. Findings – The paper shows the interface of power (municipality) and charity (MIA) in the “government of poverty”, in … interdisciplinary analysis in order to increase an understanding of the interface of power and charity in ancien regime contexts, as …

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How social media reshapes action on distant customers: some empirical evidence

Agostino, Deborah; Sidorova, Yulia - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 30 (2017) 4, pp. 777-794

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how centres of calculation, now emerging in connection with social media, impact on the process of acting on distant customers. Specifically, the authors are interested in exploring how the distance between the organization and its customer is...

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Strong structuration and carbon accounting : A position-practice perspective of policy development at the macro, industry and organizational levels

Moore, David R.J.; McPhail, Ken - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 29 (2016) 7, pp. 1204-1233

power and trust of the agent(s)-in-focus. A meso-level analysis of the Victorian water industry highlighted how it was able … to mediate the exercise of power by the macro level through the early adoption of carbon accounting frameworks. At the …(s)-in-focus. The position-practice relationships at both the industry and organizational level were characterized by both soft power …

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The role of internal auditing in corporate governance: a Foucauldian analysis

Mihret, Dessalegn Getie; Grant, Bligh - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 30 (2017) 3, pp. 699-719

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to articulate the conceptual foundations of the role of internal auditing in corporate governance by drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a literature-based analysis of the role of internal...

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Differentiating control, monitoring and oversight : Influence of power relations on boards of directors – insights from investment fund boards

Cullen, Margaret M.; Brennan, Niamh - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 30 (2017) 8, pp. 1867-1894

roles. By researching one board type – investment fund boards – and the power relations around those boards, the purpose of … theory methodology. Findings Because of their unique position of power, the authors find that fund promoter organisations … boards, boards of state-owned entities) have legal responsibility but limited power because of power exercised by other …

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Shadows and disorder: ethics in “dark times”

Thorne, Kym; Kouzmin, Alexander; Johnston, Judy - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration 4 (2012) 1, pp. 95-114

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the “ethics and transparency‐accountability” paradox in which the oft‐repeated mantras of ethical luminosity, such as transparency and accountability, appear designed to assure one that all is well when such confirmation is, possibly,...

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