This paper seeks to contribute to the emerging stream of literature on the limits of accountability and the possibilities of accounterability by questioning whether and how accounterability can so alter accountability as to enrich or transfigure it. This paper considers three intrinsic limits of...

This paper seeks to contribute to the literature on Beyond Budgeting. For that purpose, it addresses the question of whether the Beyond Budgeting philosophy can be characterised as the alignment of finance with strategy. In BBRT publications, the latter is presented as such and always remains...

Since Hofstede published his book, The consequences of culture, numerous comparative studies have flourished and built on the well-known five-dimension model. In 1999, two critiques were addressed to these pieces of work. Bhimani (1999) critiqued their homogeneity and poor ability to enhance our...

The present paper draws on the main issues in the production of scientific knowledge based upon grounded theory in management accounting research. This piece of work is a bibliographic study confronting grounded theory practices with the expectations of its founders (Glaser et Strauss, 1967; Strauss...

Purpose: This paper is a comment on Gurd's paper published in QRAM 5(2) on the use of grounded theory in interpretive accounting research. Methodology: Like Gurd, we conducted a bibliographic study on prior pieces of research claiming the use of grounded theory. Findings: We found a large...

This paper starts from critiques addressed by Bhimani (1999), Baskervile (2003) and Hofstede (2003) to the uses (and abuses) of Hofstede's (1980, 2001) five dimension-cultural model. These critiques contend that studying ethnicity in a looser framework than that of the initial model would enable...

Our paper addresses what the moral foundations of accounting are, regardless of capitalistic operations, as we are seeking to trace a genealogy of accounting thinking disconnected from coincidence with Capitalism. We demonstrate that the three monotheisms have bared the core of accounting. We...

This paper questions the impact of Bhimani's (1999), Harrison's & McKinnon's (1999), McSweeney's (2002a) and Baskerville's (2003) critiques of Hofstede's model on accounting research. We assess how cultural studies published in accounting journals and referring to these critiques have been...

This paper has a methodological purpose, as it seeks to understand the influence of pre knowledge on research design in management studies. In applying the insider/outsider model initially developed by Goodenough (1956) and Pike (1967), I analyse the influences of membership in the studied group...

Purpose - This paper contributes to the sociology-of-science type of accounting literature, addressing how accounting knowledge is established, advanced and extended. Design/methodology/approach - The research question is answered through the example of research into linkages between accounting...