This paper focuses on the need for critical reflection on the theoretical/methodological characterization of that broad area of research referred to here as "strategy studies". The aim is to point out some of the features of this field that distinguish it from other scientific ambits (in...

The extension of management discourse to public-sector entities in Italy comes up against a particularly interesting case in museums and art organisations. Here more than anywhere else, perhaps, the rhetoric of managerialisation faces serious problems in understanding the nature of such...

This paper aims to aid our understanding of the emergence of accounting as a control instrument in complex proto-industrial settings, through its perceived capacity of mirroring the production process. The paper starts off from an archival document, the 1586 deliberation by the Venetian Senate,...