Political Dynamics in Micro Organisational Accounting Change Politics, Power and Fear /

• Main Author: Alsaid, Loai (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Finance.; Accounting.; Bookkeeping.; Corporations > Finance.; Corporate Finance.; Accounting/Auditing.

This book explores the role of politics in cost accounting change. It features data from an extended case study of an Egyptian public sector organisation to provide interesting insights into the way in which changing macro political ideologies and power dynamics are being institutionalised not only...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Overview
• Chapter 2: From Costing to Cost Management: How Cost Management became a Strategic Imperative
• Chapter 3: Institutional Extensions for the Extra- and- Intra-organisational Dynamics of Cost Management Change
• Chapter 4: An Extended Case Study
• Chapter 5: History: The Politico-Legal Construction of the Organisational Field
• Chapter 6: From Costing to Cost Management: Intra-organisational Changes in Cost Management Practices
• Chapter 7: A Discussion of Institutional Dynamics
• Chapter 8: Conclusion.