Although contingency-based research finds many factors that influence a firm's management accounting (MA ) system, despite the vast economic importance of family firms in most Western countries, researchers have not considered family influence as a contingency variable for MA systems. Using...

This study investigates whether management accountants in family firms differ from their counterparts in non-family firms concerning the required qualifications and roles performed within the organization. Drawing on the resource-based view of the firm theory, we hypothesize that management...