Research on the Chief Financial Officer's (CFO) role has increased in the last few years, but has so far mainly focused on large firms and neglected the CFO's role in smaller firms. Therefore, in this paper, we study whether the CFO's role in medium-sized firms differs from the CFO's role in...

This article examines differences between family and non-family businesses with regard to the manifestation of management accounting systems and addresses the question of whether business size or the differentiation of family vs. non-family businesses is the dominant influencing factor in the...

Extant research has shown that family businesses use less management accounting practices than non-family businesses. In our study, we extend the research in this field by analysing the effects of various corporate governance configurations in family businesses on the usage of management...

This study investigates whether family businesses (FBs) differ from non-family businesses (NFBs) regarding the institutionalisation of management accounting. Furthermore, it analyses whether FB-specific contextual factors such as the existence of non-family management and the level of family...

Purpose – The purpose of the present paper is to investigate whether the transition from a family business to a non‐family business affects the institutionalisation of management accounting. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on an online survey among all large and...