...Virpi Ala-Heikkilä; Marko Järvenpää Purpose This study aims to take a step toward integrating research regarding the image, role and identity of management accountants by understanding how employers’ perceptions of the ideal management accountant image differ from operational managers’ perceived...

...Rosanna Spanò; Andrea Tomo; Lee D. Parker Purpose This paper aims to understand how training programs fostering discourses centred on individuals’ identity construction may turn resistance into a generative and enabling force to elicit more relationally and negotiated solutions of change...

... and hierarchical control behind a narrative of “support” and “partnership”. Originality/value This paper contributes to literature on management accountants’ identity by showing the central role played by symbolic categorisations. It also contributes to literature in accounting more generally by showing how...