Purpose – The authors aim to present an overview of the papers in this special issue on the theme of the role of management accounting and control in routine and change in organizations, which arose from the Management Control Association Conference at the University of Greenwich, London, UK...

Why use social theory to study accounting? -- Locating accounting in the social world -- Structure, agency and accounting -- Power, inequality and resistance -- Space, time and change -- Writing and designing empirical research with social theory -- Future directions

pt. 1. Benchmarks for comparing farm performance -- pt. 2. Benchmarking for better practice in farming -- pt. 3. Environmental benchmarking in food and farming -- pt. 4. Benchmarking for best practice : innovative practice and future developments in food and farming.