An important aspect of stakeholder management in construction projects is the contractual approach to managing risk and uncertainty. Chapman and Ward (2002) develops a balanced incentive and risk sharing (BIARS) contract, drawing on earlier research on management contracts, which lead to...

This re-titled and extensively revised book builds on the success of an established classic text. It also builds on more than thirty five years of successful consulting practice, addressing practical situations that range from major offshore oil development projects to projects limited to...

To meet the urgent and enormous task of addressing climate change will require considerable action by all sectors of society, including business. Beyond individual firm action, business climate alliances have been formed to achieve a variety of ends, including setting collective ambitions,...

How do management control practices structure other organizational practices? This paper proposes a theory of practice hierarchies. The key idea is that organizations possess constitutive rules that define their character. They are enacted by the practices at the top of the hierarchy. These...

In this paper we outline a distinctive practice theory approach to considering the role of management accounting in the constitution of organizations. Building on Schatzki's (2002) notion of arrays of activity we emphasise the ways in which organisational members actively reconstitute their...

Field studies of management control and accounting have tended to study organisational meaning through practices. We identify three strands of practice research on organisational control (viz., governmentality, actor network theory, and accountability) and propose a forth: cultural practice. The...

Purpose The purpose of this multi-voiced paper is to propose a prosocial paradigm for the field of performance management and management control systems. This new paradigm suggests cultivating prosocial behaviour and prosocial groups in organizations to simultaneously achieve the objectives of...