Purpose this study focuses on the policy of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) launched in the chemical industry in the 1980s and known as “Responsible Care”. The debate surrounding this issue prompts us to question the ever-changing nature of this policy and the way to measure the...

Standard costing was developed during the early years of the twentieth century in connection with the rise of scientific management. Such research as has been carried out into the adoption of this technique suggests that European firms lagged well behind their American counterparts in its...

L'industrie chimique a mis en place de longue date un programme de gestion et de prévention des risques dénommé “Responsible Care” (« Engagement de Progrès » en Français). Ce programme préfigure le thème du développement durable apparu au cours des années 1980. Au travers de la...

Le contrôle de gestion est l’un des principaux processus de management de l’organisation : en exploitant des données chiffrées financières et non financières, le contrôleur éclaire le décideur sur la pertinence de ses choix futurs, présents et passés. Il permet d’articuler les...

This paper jointly investigates the process whereby budgeting became institutionalised between 1930 and 1960 and the attempts of the Cam-i to deinstitutionalise it since 1990. The study focuses on the rhetoric. Paradoxically, the same arguments have been used to support the institutionalisation...

What have been published in management control and management accounting in France for ten years and what did we learn from it ? In this paper we tried to answer to these questions by examining scientific production published in Finance Contrôle Stratégie and Comptabilité Contrôle Audit, the...

Cet ouvrage porte sur les enjeux et perspectives du contrôle de gestion. Chaque problématique est abordée successivement par un universitaire et un praticien : contrôle de gestion et gestion des ressources humaines, RSE, etc.