This article aims at highlighting the issue of recognition and valuation of assets in the relationship between earnings management and financing choices. This issue has been addressed from a historical approach. The use of history is justified by the characteristics of the period: opening...

Theoretical explanations of the decision to outsource typically range from functionalism (search for efficiency) to institutionalism (search for legitimacy). Up to date, most empirical studies on the subject have been carried out relying on secondary data sources and are generally inspired by...

The purpose of this paper is to show the possible contributions of the history to management. In a first part, through imaginary dialogue founded on the respective works of two historians, the points of cohesion, discussion and rupture are exposed which characterize the epistemological and...

Since the early 1997 paper by La Porta et al., a growing body of research has argued that ‘legal origins’ have a country-specific, time-invariant effect on property rights and economic development. Following the methodology of La Porta et al., an original database of 51 bankruptcy laws has...

The way of organizing accounting did not interest many researchers in accounting. The article tries to fill this gap. It puts forward the transition from the bookkeeper to the accountant by the exploration of twelve European novels of the 19th and 20th century. This is not only a change of words...