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The tension between intention and attention: Dialectic changes in the coercive and enabling orientations of organizational rules
June Borge Doornich, Katarina Kaarbøe, Anatoli BourmistrovThis paper aims to explore how changes in the coercive and enabling orientations of the organizational rule system influence the attention managers pay to rules.
Enabling control in a radically decentralized organization
Winnie O’GradyThis paper aims to consider the enabling and coercive features of formal control in non-hierarchical settings and the factors influencing perceptions of controls.
Symbolic categories and the shaping of identity: The categorisation work of management accountants
Jeremy MoralesThis paper aims to study the symbolic categorisations management accountants produce. It examines the categories they use to describe their work and analyses the meanings they…
The “betrayal effect” on post-acquisition integration: A performative appraisal of management control systems in a merger context
Nazila Razi, John GarrickThis paper aims to draw on Latour’s (1991) conceptual “performative” framework to investigate the role of management control systems (MCSs) in the establishment of…
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- Lukas Goretzki
- Thomas Ahrens