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The critical potential of institutional theory revisited : a field study of the rationalisation of budget fairness through agentic actorhood
Ahrens, Thomas; Ferry, Laurence; Khalifa, Rihab - In: Qualitative research in accounting & management 20 (2023) 5, pp. 593-620
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014431075
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Newcastle City Council and the grassroots : accountability and budgeting under austerity
Ahrens, Thomas; Ferry, Laurence - In: Accounting, auditing & accountability journal 28 (2015) 6, pp. 909-933
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407875
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Using management control to understand public sector corporate governance changes : localism, public interest, and enabling control in an English local authority
Ferry, Laurence; Ahrens, Thomas - In: Journal of accounting & organizational change 13 (2017) 4, pp. 548-567
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011812009
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Institutional entrepreneurship, practice memory, and cultural memory : choice and creativity in the pursuit of endogenous change of local authority budgeting
Ahrens, Thomas; Ferry, Laurence - In: Management accounting research 38 (2018), pp. 12-21
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011813343
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Governmentality and counter-conduct : a field study of accounting amidst concurrent and competing rationales and programmes
Ahrens, Thomas; Ferry, Laurence; Khalifa, Rihab - In: Management accounting research 48 (2020), pp. 1-14
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Public value, institutional logics and practice variation during austerity localism at Newcastle City Council
Ferry, Laurence; Ahrens, Thomas; Khalifa, Rihab - In: Public management review 21 (2019) 1, pp. 96-115
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178720
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Institutional Entrepreneurship, Practice Memory, and Cultural Memory : Choice and Creativity in the Pursuit of Endogenous Change of Local Authority Budgeting
Ahrens, Thomas - 2016
This paper explores how a lower government organisation can act as an institutional entrepreneur. It builds on recent public sector budgeting research that identified the endogenisation of budget rules as an important element of institutional entrepreneurship. Inspired by a Wittgensteinian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980058
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Accounting, hybrids and hybridity : attending to the value dimension in institutional logics
Ahrens, Thomas; Ferry, Laurence - In: Qualitative research in accounting & management 19 (2022) 5, pp. 696-715
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013454849
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Strategic interventions of management accountants : everyday practice of British and German brewers
Ahrens, Thomas - In: European accounting review 6 (1997) 4, pp. 557-588
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Contrasting involvements : a study of management accounting practices in Britain and Germany
Ahrens, Thomas - 1999
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