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The Relationship between Organisation Structure and Management Control in Hospitals: An Elaboration and Test of Mintzberg’s Professional Bureaucracy Model
Margaret A. Abernethy, Johannes U. StoelwinderThe conflict between professional and bureaucratic models ofbehaviour has long been recognised. Evidence provided in theprofessional/bureaucratic literature indicates that this…
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After Virtue? Accounting as a Moral and Discursive Practice
Jere R. FrancisAlasdair MacIntyre′s book After Virtue is used as the basisto reflect on possibilities for virtue in accounting and some problemsin its realisation. MacIntyre advances a…
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A Bi‐cultural Comparison of Accountants’ Perceptions of Unethical Business Practices
Allan Karnes, Julie Sterner, Robert Welker, Frederick WuThis study investigates whether public accountants in the UnitedStates and Taiwan perceive the motivational factors (risks and benefits)surrounding unethical business practices…
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The Independence of Religious and External Auditors: The Case of Islamic Banks
Rifaat Ahmed Abdel KarimIslamic banks are subject to religious audit in addition to thenormal financial auditing process which is carried out in other businessorganisations. The former type of audit is…
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hybridEditors:
- Prof James Guthrie
- Prof Lee Parker