Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management: Volume 17 Issue 1

The disillusion of calculative practices in academia

Daniela Argento, Dorota Dobija, Giuseppe Grossi

The purpose of this paper is to highlight and compare insights from research conducted in different disciplines on the effects of the use of calculative practices in academia. It…

Mergers and acquisitions: the latest university fashion?

Barbara Czarniawska

This paper aims to describe and explain a contemporary phenomenon.

Failed promises – performance measurement ambiguities in hybrid universities

Jarmo Vakkuri, Jan-Erik Johanson

This paper aims to analyse performance measurement ambiguities in hybrid universities. In accounting research, performance measurement of universities has been discussed in…

Actors’ reflexivity and engagement in the formation of new accounting tools during university hybridization

Evgenii Aleksandrov

This paper aims to investigate the unfolding dynamics and evolving processes relating to the formation of accounting tools by university actors. It answers the research questions…

From professional bureaucracy to competitive bureaucracy – redefining universities’ organization principles, performance measurement criteria, and reason for being

Tomi J. Kallio, Kirsi-Mari Kallio, Annika Blomberg

This purpose of this study is to understand how the spread of audit culture and the related public sector reforms have affected Finnish universities’ organization principles…

Academic logics in changing performance measurement systems: An exploration in a university setting

Enrico Guarini, Francesca Magli, Andrea Francesconi

The purpose of this study is to analyse how academic staff cope with the new culture of performance measurement and assessment in universities. In particular, the study aims to…