This paper has mapped out three current areas of concern for project mana gement as a discipline. These were defined as the management of external influences, integration of the parties into coherent project teams and establishing clear achievable goals known to all.

drawing on observations in British and German Brewers, this paper seeks to explore the potential of analitical fecus on the ways in which accounting is combined with other forms of organisational knowledge in talk.

This paper examines the role of information in the management of railway entreprises from 1900 to c1921. Historically the railway sector has been as backward in adopting new management techniques. Only the North Eastern Railway and its use of statistical analysis for management control has been...

Collaborative supply relationships (CSRs) are growing in significance in contemporary inter-organizational management. Their growing significance apart, they are distinguished from traditional buyer-supplier relationships by their unique characteristics. These unique characteristics have...

This paper describes some preliminary findings of an ethnographic inquiry into a steel mill pruchased by its employees through a stock option scheme in the early 1980's to avoid closure by its parent company.

Although a relatively large number of interpretive case studies have been published, concerned with understanding how accountimg is percieved and used by practitioners, there are virtually no published case studies using interprative methodologies to assist the development and design of...

The technique of ABC has been widely adopted by universities in the UK, with the assumption that the more accurate identification of costs makes them more manageable. It is the purpose of this paper to consider this question of manageability through identification and allocation in the...

This paper provides an introduction to a form of financial innovation which is the relatively recent phenomenon of asset backed securisation (ABS). An overview of the related issues and importance of this trend towards asset backed securisation in the UK by financial institutions is provided....

Drawing on instances of operational management in British and German Firms, This paper seeks to contrast different styles of implicating accounting in processes of accountability.

Recently, Hammersley (What's Wrong with Ethnography: Routledge: 1992) and Silverman ( Interpreting Qualitative Data: 1993) have de-emphasised the distinction between qualitative and quantitative research and suggested to integrate them to make social science more valid. I argue that the...