Critical Perspectives in Management Control

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-7
The Problems of a Paradigm: A Critique of the Prevailing Orthodoxy in Management Control....Pages 9-26
A Strategy for the Development of Theories in Management Control....Pages 27-45
Accounting as Social Science: Abstract Versus Concrete Sources of Accounting Change....Pages 47-61
Authority, Accountability and Accounting....Pages 63-78
Power and Management Control....Pages 79-114
Ideology, Rationality and the Management Control Process....Pages 115-139
Accounting and the Pursuit of Social Interests....Pages 141-157
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Labour and Deskilling: A Critique of Managerial Control in the Glass Industry....Pages 161-187
The Management and Control of Experts and Expertise: The Case of the Nurse....Pages 189-215
Accounting in the Production and Reproduction of Culture....Pages 217-243
The Accounting Profession, Corporatism and the State....Pages 245-270
Authority or Domination: Alternative Possibilities for the Practice of Control....Pages 271-291
Professional Authority and Resource Allocation: Treasurers and Politics in UK Local Governments....Pages 293-321
Front Matter....Pages 322-322
Autocritique I....Pages 325-329
Autocritique II....Pages 331-340
Back Matter....Pages 341-343