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...

In the UK, the Government intends to introduce new transfer pricing rules and include them within the self-assessment tax system. Prior to that, thegovernment intends to publish draft legislation for consultation "to ensure that the new provisions are clear, complience costs are kept to the...

Sequential meta heuristic implementations for the irregular stock-cutting problem have highlighted a number of common problems. The implementation in this paper adopts a hybrid tabu search approach that incorporates two very different optimisation routines which utilise alternative neighborhoods...

This paper describes and illustrates a symbolic interactionist approach to critical ethnographic research in organizations. In so doing, it addresses the call by Chua (1988), for first, the development and explication of a less eclectic approach to interpretive sociology by management accounting...

Data was collected from the OFSTED database on primary schools in Hampshire, Southampton and Portmouth in order to access the factors that influence their productivity.