Handbook of Management Accounting Research

Christopher Chapman, having previously researched the ways in which people work to make accounting relevant to operational decision making in a variety of contexts including restaurants and professional service firms, currently studies the design of cost systems for healthcare providers. He is an editor of "Accounting, Organizations and Society" and is the President of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management

"The Handbooks of Management Accounting Research represent an ambitious and important project to pull together the main streams of modern research in this vitally important area. Anyone who is interested in using management accounting theory to understand or improve practice should study these handbooks carefully." --Professor Roberts Simons, Harvard Business School, USA

• The scope of the management accounting research literature1.01 Management accounting: A bibliographic study; 1.02 Mapping Management Accounting: Graphics and Guidelines for Theory-consistent Empirical Research;Theoretical perspectives1.03 Theorizing Practice in Management Accounting Research; 1.04 Psychology Theory in Management Accounting Research; 1.05 Economics in Management Accounting; 1.06 Theorizing Contingencies in Management Control Systems Research;1.07 Critical theorizing in Management Accounting Research; 1.08 Agency theory and Management Accounting; 1.09 Historical Theorizing in Management Accounting Research; 1.10 Management Accounting and Sociology;Research methods1.11 Doing Qualititative Field Research in Management Accounting: Positioning Data to Contribute to Theory; 1.12 Doing Quantitative Field Research in Management Accounting; 1.13 Comparative Management Accounting Research: Past Forays and Emerging Frontiers; 1.14 Analytical Modelling in Management Accounting Research; 1.15 There and Back Again: Doing Interventionist Research in Management Accounting; 1.16 Doing Archival Research in Management Accounting; 1.17 Experimental Research in Management Accounting; 1.18 Doing Management Accounting Survey Research.