This paper explores the challenges raised by a 2007 reform by the French government concerning the management and valuation of the State’s intangible assets. It conceptualizes intangible assetization as a socio-technical process of turning things into intangible assets through discursive and...

Le développement du contrôle budgétaire dans les entreprises en France s'est fait dans le contexte idéologique des réflexions sur l'organisation économique suscitées par les crises économique et politique des années 1930 et 1940. Le contrôle budgétaire est apparu alors à de nombreux...

In this paper, the authors show that capitalism and double-entry bookkeeping are not indissociably interconnected as Sombart argued in his book in 1916. Indeed, the double-entry bookkeeping accounting system was also adopted by anti-capitalist countries where a new economic system was set up. A...

Historically, the development of budgetary control in French businesses took place within the ideological context of the debate on organisation of the economy following the economic and political crises of the 1930s and 1940s. Budgetary control was seen by many actors as one of the practices...

This article is a contribution to the study of the spread of management innovations, methods and rhetorics. It particularly concerns the influence of ideological and political factors, which have so far mostly escaped in-depth study. In particular, we seek to understand to what extent a critique...

Le développement du contrôle budgétaire dans les entreprises en France s'est fait dans le contexte idéologique des réflexions sur l'organisation économique suscitées par les crises économique et politique des années 1930 et 1940. Le contrôle budgétaire est apparu alors à de nombreux...

Nous traitons dans cet article de la quantification économique Et de son utilisation par la recherche en économie, en embrassant ses différentes sources qu'elles soient comptables ou statistiques. Diverses interrogations nous ont guidés. La première est la méconnaissance qu'ont souvent les...

This article is a contribution to the study of the spread of management innovations, methods and rhetorics. It particularly concerns the influence of ideological and political factors, which have so far mostly escaped in-depth study. In particular, we seek to understand to what extent a critique...

Purpose – This paper aims to discuss how Bruno Latour's version of actor‐network theory has influenced accounting research. It also seeks to show that Latour's writings contain unexplored potential that may inspire future accounting research. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes...

Purpose – Accounting researchers have frequently borrowed theories and methods from other disciplines. A noteworthy importation movement in recent decades involves the work of French intellectuals and philosophers, not least Pierre Bourdieu. This paper aims to contribute to the sociology of...