Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management: Volume 14 Issue 4

Guest editorial

John Burns, Irvine Lapsley, Peter Miller

Role attribution in public sector accountability processes: Dynamic and situation-specific accountor and constituent roles

Eva Hagbjer, Kalle Kraus, Johnny Lind, Ebba Sjögren

The purpose of this paper is to explore how actors take on and ascribe the role of accountor and constituent in the process of giving and demanding of reasons for organisational…

Lean and process-orienting health care – linking and disentangling activities

Gustaf Kastberg, Sven Siverbo

One of the latest trends within public administration and healthcare organizations (HCOs) is process orientation, often in the shape of Lean management. The purpose of this study…

New public management a re-packaging of extant techniques?: Some archival evidence from an Irish semi-state power company

Martin Quinn, Liz Warren

The purpose of this paper is to explore, if, similar to other management initiatives, new public management may be a repackaging of already existent concepts. Emerging in the…

Exploring organisational hybridity from a learning perspective

Hans Knutsson, Anna Thomasson

The purpose of this paper is to explore if the application of a framework building on organisational learning focusing on organisational processes can increase our understanding…

Ex-citable accounting and the development of pervasive innovation

Silvana Revellino, Jan Mouritsen

The purpose of this paper is to explain the role of the performativity theory for understanding how the calculative instruments of accounting provoke innovation and participate in…

The interplay of managerial and non-managerial controls, institutional work, and the coordination of laterally dependent hospital activities

Kari Nyland, Charlotte Morland, John Burns

The purpose of this paper is to explore two hospital departments, one of which is laterally dependent on the other to function, but which are subject to distinct vertical…