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This paper studies the process by which a change in the institutional logic of an organisational field diffuses through the management control system of a firm. The theoretical framework proposed by Hasselbladh and Kallinikos (2000) enables us to describe the institutionalisation process of...
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in the political process that accounting information systems must pass through in order to become established as an …
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intermediate subsidiary between an accounting-oriented Western parent and subsidiaries in the Baltic countries and Russia is used … to discuss how accounting can be used to link the divergent social systems of the different parts of the corporation. The … present study extends the sociology-based accounting literature studying the power of expert systems. In particular, the …
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We consider accounting from an evolutionary perspective. Accounting encompasses the creation of transactional records …, the summarization of records in t-accounts, and the preparation of audited financial statements. Accounting's history … accounting history in three ways: providing useful thoughts experiments valuable to researchers interested in the development of …
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accounting systems. The situation is made complex due to the fact that in military organisations, accountants' tasks have … traditionally consisted of bookkeeping and financial reporting, while management accounting tasks especially (e.g. planning and … study consists of project memos and interviews with people involved in designing and implementing ERP-linked cost accounting …
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This paper examines the interrelationship between management control system (MCS) mechanisms and strategy. The traditional view is that the MCS is shaped by organisational strategy. More contemporary viewpoints, however, suggest that there may be a two-way relationship between the two variables....
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Stimulation of goal congruent behavior through the coordinated allocation of human resources - i.e., time, energy and attention - requires the mental models of organizational actors to be convergent. The Strategic Dialogue is advocated for the purpose of convergent mental modeling in relation to...
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This paper is based on an analysis of 183 responses from managing directors of small Finnish companies. The study describes the extent to which small Finnish firms have adopted traditional and contemporary MCS practices and how systematically they use the MCS information. Additionally, the use...
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We use an experiment to investigate the efficacy of a non-binding budgetary announcement made by an owner in order to mitigate a management control problem induced by asymmetric information. The owner's announcement indicates how much funding she will provide for each possible cost report by the...
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In the 1990's, a large number of Finnish hospitals began implementing new cost accounting systems, which were aimed at … theory leads us to believe that managerial accounting systems may be converging due to the pressures from the institutions …, the convergence in the two case hospitals has been a convergence of names of accounting systems rather than of the methods …
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