Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to improve understanding of the work of management accountants in the context of a shared services centre. Design/methodology/approach: A single case study method is used and data are collected via semi-structured interviews and internal documents. The...

Purpose: This paper aims to explore controls within an inter-organisational relationship involving outsourced management accounting services from the contractor’s perspective. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative data from within the relationship are analysed in a legitimacy-theory...

Purpose: This paper aims to focus on the recruitment and selection processes of management accountants to enhance the understanding of how employers form perceptions of a suitable management accountant. Design/methodology/approach: The analysis is based on 17 interviews with individuals...

<Para ID="Par1">Although researchers of management control and accounting have extensively addressed the implications of enterprise resource planning (ERP) system adoption over the past decade, there is a paucity of research that explicitly pays attention to the legitimation of ERP system adoption. To extend...</para>

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to improve the understanding of the rhetoric used to promote enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, which are complex organisation-wide software packages inherently connected to the domains of management and organisation. Design/methodology/approach...