This research study is aimed to investigate barriers and problems of establishment process of integrated accounting information systems (IAIS) in the universities of an emerging market (Iran) in order to facilitate their establishment. The research population includes Iranian state universities’ CFO and his/her deputy, as well as IT specialists involved in the process of establishment of IAIS i...

Cost effective management relies upon a systemic and fully integrated understanding of which corporate actions lead to specific financial results. It is particularly relevant for hidden and underemphasized costs. This case study presents the efforts of corporate environment, health and safety staff at Baxter International to design a health and safety accounting system in 1998. Bringing togethe...

The integrated product mix-outsourcing optimization is a major problem in manufacturing enterprise. Generally, heuristic or meta-heuristic solution approaches are used to optimize such problems. Heuristic approaches for these problems include Theory of Constraints (TOC) and Standard Accounting. Sometimes heuristic approaches are inefficient especially in large problems and instead, in these cas...

This paper describes and illustrates a symbolic interactionist approach to critical ethnographic research in organizations. Aneclectic approach to interpretive sociology for management accounting researchers is developed and explicated. Also, an integrated interpretive perspective is described for the study of issues of power and ideology. The method offers the potential for new and additional ...

The evolution of genomes can be studied at at least three different scales: the nucleotide level, accounting for substitutions and indels, the gene level, accounting for gains and losses, and the genome level, accounting for rearrangements of chromosome organization. While the nucleotide and gene levels are now often integrated in a single model using reconciled gene trees, very little work int...