This paper is based on an analysis of 183 responses from managing directors of small Finnish companies. The study describes the extent to which small Finnish firms have adopted traditional and contemporary MCS practices and how systematically they use the MCS information. Additionally, the use...

On the borderline of management control (MC) and human resource management (HRM) systems, this article investigates the question of performance evaluation criteria, where both systems overlap. The perspective is interpretative, with a focus on the individual perceptions of evaluated persons. The...

Purpose: This paper analyses what factors drive a company's decision to align financial and management accounting policies as a measure of integration of management accounting and financial accounting at the highest hierarchy levels of a company. Design/methodology/approach: Research hypotheses...

In this inaugural address I take a bird's eye view on the recent developments in the disciplines of management accounting and management control during the past two decades. Three stages are distinguished and clarified: the accounting stage, operational excellence and, finally, the customer...

This study examines an initiative by a large multinational garment retailer (H&M Group) to increase wages at its supplier factories by intervening in their wage-related management practices. Difference-in-differences estimates based on eight years of data from over 1,800 factories show that the...