Public managers are increasingly subject to management controls. In this study, we determine how management controls in public sector organizations influence managers’ well-being at work. Based on central beliefs and concepts in the management control literature and self-determination theory,...

In this article we discuss the evolutionary foundation of the OIE-guided management accounting change research building on the framework of Scapens (1994) and Burns and Scapens (2000). We argue that research on management accounting change should be based on evolutionary theory, but that the...