Purpose – This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the social aspects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by studying a case of organizational downsizing. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a theoretical framework consisting of stakeholder theory and legitimacy...

Purpose Several scholars have recently highlighted the narrowness of accounting research regarding it as a threat to scholarly developments in the field. The aim of this study was to chart progress in management accounting research using a sample of doctoral dissertations published in Finland....

This paper addresses the relationship between “new” and the “old” public performance management; the dialogue between imported idealistic designs and the inherently stable existing (performance) management systems (Carmona & Grönlund, 2003; Hyvönen, Järvinen, Pellinen, & Rahko, 2009; Scapens...