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• BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
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• EDEN DOCTORAL SEMINAR ON PRODUCING AND EVALUATING KNOWLEDGE IN MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
• PRACTICALITIES

Kari LUKKA
Turku School of Economics (TSE)

Michael SHIELDS
Eli Broad Graduate School of Management - Michigan State University
 

The rate of change in the practice of and research on management accounting appears to be increasing. Many  organisations are attempting to change their existing, or implement new and innovative, management accounting practices, based on new management accounting and business ideas, practices, strategies, structures, processes, systems, and information. A number of new challenging objects of measurement and control have recently emerged, including intellectual capital and networks of organisations. The roles and designs of budgeting systems appear to be changing. While much of this innovation and implementation concentrates on new costing or performance measurement systems, there is also change related to the roles of management accountants in organisations. Current developments outlined above provide many new opportunities for innovative management accounting research, and for a fruitful integration of existing accounting knowledge and the currently emerging practice issues.

The purpose of this conference, like its six predecessors, is to examine innovative management accounting practices and innovative ideas about how to conduct research on them.

The conference will consist of plenary sessions and research paper presentations. The general theme for this next conference is "Innovations in management accounting practice and research”. The theme covers issues like innovations of management accounting in health-care institutions, management accounting innovations as related to global communications, the implications of institutional theory on management accounting, and innovative modes of thought in management accounting.

The invited plenary speakers are:

• Ranjani Krishnan, Michigan State University, USA
• Alan Richardson, York University, Canada
• Keith Robson, Cardiff Business School, UK
• Wim van der Stede, London School of Economics, UK
 

Submission of papers that deal with innovative management accounting practices, theories, and research methods are particularly relevant to this conference. For reference, papers on the following types of issues are welcomed warmly:

PRACTICE:
* innovative management accounting practices in particular parts of the world
* management accounting in new organizational designs (flat, horizontal, matrix, network, virtual, team)
* management accounting systems for enterprise resource planning systems, e-commerce, electronic data interchange, electronic meetings, customer relationship management, and supply chain management
* value chain accounting
* new management accounting techniques, processes and information
* linkages between competitive strategy and management accounting
* integration/disintegration of management accounting
* challenges of globalisation for management accounting
* changing roles of management accountants in organizations
* information about what practitioners expect management accounting researchers to do


RESEARCH:
* role of social science and other theories in researching innovative practices
* comparative analyses of various theoretical approaches
* new theories for researching innovative practices
* ways of improving the relevance, validity, and reliability of theory-based empirical research
* role of research design in management accounting studies
* research method issues in researching innovative practices
* innovative ways of conducting management accounting research

Completed papers intended for presentation at the conference should be submitted

by 15 September 2010

Please click HERE to submit online.

Guidelines to submit:
Text size 12 points
Single spaced
Maximum file size 1024 KB

To be acceptable, proposals MUST be submitted through this web site!
 

• The papers will be considered for presentation at concurrent sessions by the Programme Committee, and a response will be given by 15 October 2010.
   
• There will be an appointed discussant for each paper presented at the Conference.

An EDEN ( EIASM's Doctoral Education Network) seminar is proposed jointly with this Conference.

For more details, click HERE

The Conference will start on Wednesday, December 15 around 1pm and is scheduled to end at approximately 4 p.m.on Friday, December 17.

LOCATION :
The whole workshop will take place in the Hotel Métropole in which the  EIASM premises are located (Place De Brouckère-plein 31, 1000 Brussels).

The Hotel Métropole is marvelously well located right in the historical centre of Brussels, just a few steps away from the “Grand-Place”, the “Bourse” and the “Theatre de la Monnaie” and close to the central and north railway stations, that each have direct connections to Brussels International airport.

SOCIAL EVENTS :
Welcome reception
Conference dinner

FEE - REGISTRATION - ACCOMMODATION :
Details will be posted soon. 


ADMINISTRATION :
Ms. Graziella Michelante - EIASM Conference Manager
EIASM - Place de Brouckère-Plein 31 - 1000 Brussels - Belgium
Tel: (32) 2 2266662 - Fax: 32 2 5121929
Email: michelante@eiasm.be