...Chiara Oppi; Giovanna Galizzi; Antonella Liccardo Purpose This study investigates how diverse actors interact to introduce a gender perspective into existing accounting practices in the university context, through the development of new accounting tools. Design/methodology/approach Action...

...Noel Hyndman; Mariannunziata Liguori Purpose This paper explores how performance-management systems are understood and framed through the use of rhetoric and language within universities, where not-for-profit, charitable goals are (or should be) central. It addresses the issues of: how strategic...

... collected over time, combining both quantitative and qualitative elements. The data were gathered from a two-wave survey in 2010 (966 respondents) and 2015 (672 respondents), conducted among scholars performing teaching- and research-oriented tasks in three Finnish universities. Findings The analysis...

...Bikram Chatterjee; Carolyn J. Cordery; Ivo De Loo; Hugo Letiche Purpose In this paper, we concentrate on the use of research assessment (RA) systems in universities in New Zealand (NZ) and the United Kingdom (UK). Primarily we focus on PBRF and REF, and explore differences between these systems...

...Dorota Dobija; Anna Maria Górska; Giuseppe Grossi; Wojciech Strzelczyk Purpose The purpose of this paper is to facilitate a deeper understanding of the uses and users of performance measurement (PM) in the university context. Design/methodology/approach Empirical data were gathered from four...

...Grietjie Verhoef; Grant Samkin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how the actions of the accounting profession, the state, universities, and academics have inhibited the development of South African accounting research. Design/methodology/approach A multiple history approach using...

... HEIs’ annual reports. Informed by a multi-theoretical framework drawn from public accountability, legitimacy, resource dependence and stakeholder perspectives, the authors propose that the characteristics of governing and executive structures in UK universities influence the extent of their voluntary...

...Gloria Agyemang; Jane Broadbent Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the management control systems developed by universities and groups within them, to manage research within UK University Business and Management Schools. Specifically, the paper analyses how universities develop...

... are gathered both at the global level and at the local (university) level through an in‐depth case study. This allows a dynamic multi‐level analysis based on a neo‐institutional framework. Findings This article shows how formal MCSs contribute to the institutionalisation of a wider PMS at the global level...

... in university administration. Regardless of how good a teacher they are, unless they have publications they are viewed poorly. Originality/value An attempt to summarize the situation many academics are finding themselves in – unless they publish that will be undervalued in the academic workplace...

... Universities Organizational restructuring Restructuring, it's more than a buzz wordAnd it's on again if you haven't heardThree different reviewers have been this timeAnd that's the reason for this rhymeWe have a purpose and mission tooWill that be lost in the hullabaloo?Are the deck chairs...

... and “marketization” on business schools. Research limitations/implications The editorial offers scope for accounting academics to engage with the university and protect against business school corporatization and/or privatization. This is an important issue in higher education, not only in Australia...

... Limited 2009 Accounting research Communities Universities As founding editors of AAAJ, we continue to seek out the new and different, championing the challenge to the traditionalist mainstream accounting research journal orthodoxy. Ours is a “mainstream” home for the community...

...Lee Parker Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the career changing roles of university professors. Design/methodology/approach Poetic exposition. Findings Observes the common trend of research and teaching professors to become elevated to university management positions...

...Sven Modell Purpose To examine the political and institutional processes surrounding the construction of consumer‐orientated performance measurement (PM) practices in the Swedish university sector. Design/methodology/approach A longitudinal case study in the Swedish university sector drawing...

...Lee Parker; James Guthrie Purpose The paper explores the rapidly changing environment affecting universities and their research communities. It sets out to explore the effect of university corporatisation on research and teaching, and aims to identify likely coping strategies for researchers...

... cases may overshadow accounting’s facilitating roles. This paper provides evidence supporting the latter thesis within an enterprise bargaining context. Using the University of New England, as a case study, the paper highlights how opposing parties engage similar accounting technologies to support...

...Rob Gray © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> Research Accounting Universities Funding Required 1. Provide a report to your CEO – showing full calculations – on the financial circumstances and potential of the Department of Accountancy and Business Finance (35 marks). 2...

...Russell J. Craig; Frank L. Clarke; Joel H. Amernic This paper was stimulated by the chilling vision of the corporate university described by Moore and touted by numerous others. It exposes the ways in which Newman’s The Idea of a University will be abrogated and transformed by corporate...

...David Coy; Michael Pratt In an era when improved accountability and more comprehensive annual reporting was sought from all parts of the New Zealand public sector, this paper focuses on universities to explore the political influences on accountability. The changing nature of accountability...