Purpose: This paper aims to present an understanding of what it means to infuse teaching with qualitative research and to introduce the papers in the special issue. Design/methodology/approach: This is an introductory essay that provides a brief overview and analysis of the ideas to be found in...

Purpose: This paper aims to present an understanding of what it means to infuse teaching with qualitative research and to introduce the papers in the special issue. Design/methodology/approach: This is an introductory essay that provides a brief overview and analysis of the ideas to be found in...

pt. 1. Benchmarks for comparing farm performance -- pt. 2. Benchmarking for better practice in farming -- pt. 3. Environmental benchmarking in food and farming -- pt. 4. Benchmarking for best practice : innovative practice and future developments in food and farming.

1. Why use social theory to study accounting? -- 2. Locating accounting in the social world -- 3. Structure, agency and accounting -- 4. Power, inequality and resistance -- 5. Space, time and change -- 6. Writing and designing empirical research with social theory -- 7. Future directions.

Purpose: Lean-inspired approaches and performance management systems are being implemented in public healthcare organisations internationally. However, the literature is inconclusive regarding the benefits of these management tools and there is a lack of knowledge regarding processes for...

Purpose: The relationship between research and teaching – sometimes referred to as the research–teaching nexus – is an important issue in education literature. However, although it is acknowledged that this question is specific to each discipline, it is rarely addressed in the management...

Purpose – While new institutionalism‐inspired accounting literature has opened up new perspectives for the study of micro‐processes of change in accounting practices, little is still known about how individuals subjectively experience these processes. In this paper, the authors propose to...

Consider a firm as an organization that needs to efficiently coordinate several specialized departments in an uncertain environment. Decision making involves collective planning sessions and decentralized operational processes. In this setting this paper explores the role of economic modeling...

[eng] How do financial structure influence firm's strategic behavior? Case study in the french wine industry - Industrial strategies of growth must be backed by relevant financial structures; but the choice of these structures (level of debt and debt/equity ratio) is restricted by the more or...