Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1002578 | Management Accounting Research | 2008 | 17 Pages |
Abstract
This research is concerned with the diffusion of management accounting innovations viewed as a process of actor-network building and translation. The aim is to better understand the nature of accounting change. Using Actor-Network Theory (ANT), we analyze two innovations that have had different fates in France. These innovations are the Georges Perrin method (GPM) and Activity-Based Costing (ABC). We are particularly concerned with the dynamic of actor-networks throughout the diffusion processes of these innovations. We show how problematization, interessement, enrolment and mobilization take many, and often very surprising, forms for diffusion to occur.
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Authors
Simon Alcouffe, Nicolas Berland, Yves Levant,