Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management: Volume 8 Issue 3

The roles of management control in a product development setting

Chris Akroyd, William Maguire

The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which management control is enacted in a product development setting, to provide new insights into the different roles that…

The qualitative research interview

Sandy Q. Qu, John Dumay

Despite the growing pressure to encourage new ways of thinking about research methodology, only recently have interview methodologists begun to realize that “we cannot lift the…

The art of managing individuality

Hanne Nørreklit

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the symbolic forms used in selected mainstream management models and to assess whether it would be expedient for enforcing the connection…

Convergence versus divergence of performance measurement systems: Lessons from spatial variations

Mostafa Jazayeri, Danture Wickramsinghe, Tharusha Gooneratne

The purpose of this paper is to report on two institutional change scenarios of performance measurement (PM) systems, namely, subversion and integration. Subversion represents…