... Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Professional service firms Management control systems Loose coupling Big Four This paper analyzes the interplay of the formal rules and informal routines surrounding management control systems (MCSs) [1...

...Ricardo Azambuja; Lisa Baudot; Bertrand Malsch Purpose This study explores the professional work of managers in professional service firms (PSFs) by focusing on the relational position of managers as they interface between diverse groups of actors and navigate a multiplicity of accountabilities...

..., the paper discusses its implications for the future of the profession, social mobility and the use of Foucault’s work on technologies of power and the self in studying subjectivity at elite professional service firms. The remainder of the paper is structured as follows. The next section introduces extant...

...Professor Chris Carter, Professor Crawford Spence and Professor Daniel Muzio; Mehdi Boussebaa Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw critical accounting research to ground the study of globalising of professional service firms (GPSFs) more firmly in the history and actuality...