(VF)Au moyen d’une enquête quantitative, le métier de contrôleur de gestion est appréhendé en termes de missions, d’image et de compétences. Deux types de postes, les techniciens et les conseillers, ont été identifiés. L’existence d’une mission d’adaptation des outils aux...

This paper examines the justifications management accountants give of their role and position in organizations. We identified four main arguments : their position in the circuit of information, their expertise in accounting and finance, the position given by senior management and their role as...

This paper describes an exploratory field study which was carried out at the SNCF. In a network company like SNCF it is more difficult to adopt the assumptions on which traditional management control is based. Now this company is entering into a new process of change of its control system. Is a...

Little attention has been given to the coexistence that could exist between several rationales. Most studies illustrate the victory of the financial rationale, other groups trying in vain to resist change. In this paper, based on an ethnographic study of management control practices, we try to...