Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the sociology‐of‐science type of accounting literature, addressing how accounting knowledge is established, advanced and extended. Design/methodology/approach – The research question is answered through the example of research into...

Purpose: This paper aims to analyze the organizational capabilities involved in the adoption of environmental management tools in eight large French firms. The analysis also examines the antecedents that contributed to the emergence of those capabilities and the consequences of their...

Purpose: The Beyond Budgeting movement has argued that traditional budgets failed to contribute to the management of tensions associated with the increasing complexity of business models. The literature has reported a range of budgeting practices developed to address these problems, which the...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to focus on the policy of corporate social responsibility (CSR) launched in the chemical industry in the 1980s and known as “Responsible Care” (RC). The debate surrounding this issue prompts us to question the ever‐changing nature of this policy and...

During the first sixty years or so of the twentieth century, a number of accounting techniques were developed for use in the management of business. One of those new techniques was budgetary control. This paper examines the dissemination and diffusion of budgetary control in France and Britain...

While budgetary control is a potentially significant tool when the economic environment is unstable and unpredictable, the analysis of its development demonstrates that its use has dramatically expanded over the time since companies have been able to run forecasts. In order to help them develop...

A travers l'analyse de la conception et de la mise en œuvre d'un projet d’administration, ce cas vise à mettre en lumière les problèmes et enjeux de la déclinaison et du pilotage d'une stratégie dans le contexte public. Après avoir présenté les composantes et enjeux du pilotage...

La prise en compte de la responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise pose la question des moyens d’évaluer sa performance en la matière. L’exemple d’Areva.

This PhD dissertation examines how management accountants construct their professional identity in organization. To answer this question, we have built a conceptual framework based on the sociological french work of Dubar and based on identity regulation as organizational control. The...