Purpose – The purpose is to understand the manner in which companies use management accounting and control systems (MACS) for dialogical communication in assisting collaboration and the coordination of actions. The task of the research is to answer the following questions: why is it important...

Purpose: This paper analyses the extent to which public sector (PS) and non-profit (NP) organisations' reports and reporting processes adopt an IR framework as model of dialogical accountings and accountability (DAA) for dialogue with stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach: The paper...

The study is based on viewing management accounting and control systems (MACS) as dynamic, organisationally embedded social phenomena whose main objective is to generate and coordinate action. In organisational communication processes many different languages are used and people have to...