...Jakob Mathias Liboriussen; Rikke Jakobsen Purpose This study aims to conceptualise how management accountants involved in innovative practices can contribute to creativity and innovation through dialogical and supportive management accounting practices. Design/methodology/approach The research...

...Darren Jubb Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conduct a meso-level analysis of the use of budgeting by creative individuals involved in the production of popular music, an area where there is tension between creativity and control. Design/methodology/approach The paper gathers interview...

...Jakob Mathias Liboriussen; Hanne Nørreklit; Mihaela Trenca Purpose This paper aims to address a dilemma raised in the accounting literature on how managers of creative practices can produce and use accounting measurements that support employees’ self-determination to create whilst also building...

..., control has been seen as a constraint on the freedom, creativity, experimentation, and flexibility of the developers and, therefore, detrimental to innovation (Davila et al., 2009a ; Christner and Strömsten, 2015). MCSs were seen as a way to have unenthusiastic and compliant employees (Ouchi...

...Prof. John Burns, Prof. Bill Nixon; Ivar Friis; Allan Hansen Purpose – This paper aims to explore the role of line-item budgeting in film production in an effort to illustrate the positive effects that budgetary constraints can have on creativity. Design/methodology/approach – Using...