Although many may think of accounting as something abstract that happens only in spreadsheets, our new study in BMC Public Health shows that accounting can impact our wellbeing. Based on a large survey in a well-known multinational, we find that participative budgeting practices can yield positive wellbeing effects.
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How to stimulate interpersonal trust in organizations? How can performance management contribute to trust? And, can other types of management control also enhance interpersonal trust? These questions are addressed in our recent study amongst healthcare managers, as published in The British Accounting Review (open access). In this blog (also published on Social Science Space and the European Accounting Association’s blog), we highlight our three key findings.
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Organizations are frequently confronted with environmental shifts and change. In our recent publication (Toldbod and Van der Kolk, forthcoming in the European Accounting Review), we examine how environmental shifts can trigger cascades of management control changes, how this creates incoherence, and how managers can use the incoherence to stimulate organizational dialogue.
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What are the combined effects of different management tools on individuals in an organization? This week, our study addressing this question was published in the academic journal Management Accounting Research. Continue reading
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