Purpose: Drawing on recent research, which recognises the situated nature of accounting practices, the purpose of this paper is to extend the Burns and Scapens (B&S) framework and to illustrate its potential for studying the situated nature of management accounting practices. The extended...

Over the past decade institutional theory, and particularly the Burns and Scapens framework has been used for many studies of management accounting change [Burns, J., Scapens, R.W., (2000). Conceptualizing management accounting change: an institutional framework. Management Accounting Research,...

PurposeDrawing on recent research, which recognises the situated nature of accounting practices, the aim of the paper is to extend the Burns and Scapens (B&S) framework and illustrate its potential for studying the situated nature of management accounting practices. The extended framework...