The aim of this article is to discuss the dilemmas over the integration of accounting in EU member states. The dilemma could be divided into the following main groups. Dilemma of the user of financial statements. This dilemma consists in determining for whom the integration of accounting in EU...

Compliance with prevailing accounting standards is induced if the expected disadvantage due to sanctions imposed if non-compliance is detected outweighs the advantage of non-compliant accounting choices.(...)

During the last years issues of strategic management accounting have received widespread attention in the accounting literature. Yet the conceptual foundation of most proposals is not clear. This paper presents a theoretical analysis of one of the most prominent approaches of strategic...

Numerous empirical studies reveal that accounting numbers – equity as well as earnings’ measures - have lost value relevance, i.e. explanatory power for stock market capitalisation and/or abnormal returns, during the last decades. This effect is of particular significance after the rise of the...

How do evaluative practices become natural and ubiquitous in an organization? In this paper we integratefindings from previous empirical work on the adoption of evaluative practices in organizations with insightsfrom institutional theory and social psychology research for advancing the...

In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest among growth economists in General Purpose Technologies (GPTs). A GPT can be defined as "a technology that initially has much scope for improvement and evntually comes to be widely used, to have many uses, and to have many Hicksian and...