Application of contingency frameworks to management accounting research comenced in the mid 1970s and dominated organizational level research throughout the 1980s. Despite this popularity there have been persistent criticisms directed at issues of theory and method. This paper reviews...

[Extract] This chapter is concerned with developing our understanding of the role of management control systems (MCS) in formulating and implementing strategy. Strategy has become a dominant influence in the study of organizations. Researchers in areas such as economics (Milgrom and Roberts 1992;...