Care of the self, a technique for governing the individual in society, proves to be equally a control technique for the individual in the firm. In a firm dedicated to the cult of beauty, there is a blurring of the lines between employee and consumer individual. This blurring makes care of the...

Gender issues are examined in the French and the Anglo-Saxon accounting literatures. The authors propose an overview of the theoretical frameworks and the methodologies used in the selected articles. An analysis of the glass ceiling in the accounting profession is provided. This article...

In this paper, the authors draw from theories of cognition, in particular Piaget (1930, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1949, 1966, 1968) and provide some content analysis of Simons’ writings (1987, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, 2000), based on four categories, which stem from our interpretation of Piaget’s...

Women in public accounting firms are still proportionally much fewer in the highest levels of the hierarchy than men, whereas the recruitement at a junior level tends to be more and more gender balanced. The aim of this paper is to propose ana analysis of the mechanisms that explain the barriers...

This paper draws on socio-institutional research on accounting technology. It underlines the ability of one type of accounting technology (performance measurement technology) to be a base for control at a distance since this technology links together discourse and calculation.

This paper addresses investment procedures as a mediating instrument (Miller & O’Leary, 2007). We bring to light how normative social roles are created by procedures, focusing on their very form (Goody, 1977; 1986; 2000; Norman, 1991; 1993; Phillips & Hardy, 2002; Phillips, Lawrence & Hardy, 2004). Using a content...

Cet article étudie les raisons qui conduisent à changer le système de contrôle d'une organisation. A partir de la théorie néo-institutionnelle, il montre que le changement de système de contrôle est largement expliqué par l'évolution de la " logique institutionnelle " du secteur dans...

Par la confrontation d'une lecture personnelle de Barnard à un cadre empirique d'organisation actuelle du travail, cet article identifie les risques encourus par un manager de télétravailleurs, les mécanismes individuels et organisationnels mis en oeuvre pour tenter de maîtriser ces risques...

Le thème " femmes et comptabilité " est étudié ici autour de deux aspects : l'évolution de la place de la femme dans la profession comptable et l'image de la femme diffusée par les documents comptables. L'article s'articule autour d'une typologie des théories féministes et des...