Advances in Management Accounting

Chris Akroyd is Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His primary research areas include management accounting and control systems with a focus on product innovation, social and environmental sustainability, and entrepreneurial firms. His research has appeared in Management Accounting Research, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Accounting & Finance and Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management. He is the Co-Editor of Advances in Management Accounting.Laurie L. Burney is Associate Professor of Accounting at the Baylor University, USA. Her research uses a behavioural approach to investigate management control systems and performance measurement. Laurie's research has been published in several journals including Accounting, Organizations and Society, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of Information Systems, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. She serves as Editor of Advances in Management Accounting.

• Introduction; Chris Akroyd and Laurie L. Burney Chapter 1. Accounting Control, Operational Control, and the Value of Continuous Improvement: A Capacity Change Perspective; Matt Kaufman, Ella Mae Matsumura, and Urban Wemmerlöv Chapter 2. The Association between Management Accounting Practices, Organizational Characteristics and Facility Performance; Lawrence P. Grasso and Thomas Tyson Chapter 3. Collaboration, Strategic Performance Measurement Systems and Competitiveness; Chia-Ling Lee and Ya-Nan Shih Chapter 4. Budgeting in Start-up Companies: European Survey-based Evidence; Odysseas Pavlatos and Hara Kostakis Chapter 5. Managers’ Perceptions of Justice in Participative Budgeting; Kevin E. Dow, Davood Askarany, Belaynesh Teklay, and Ulf H. Richter Chapter 6. Influence of Budgetary Support and Teamwork on Organizational Commitment and Performance: Evidence from Malaysia and the US; Sakthi Mahenthiran, Robert Mackoy, and Jane L. Y. Terpstra-Tong Chapter 7. The Impact of Environmental Activity Management and Sustainability Strategy on Triple Bottom line Performance; Nuraddeen Abubakar Nuhu, Kevin Baird, and Sophia Su Chapter 8. Incentive Instruments and the Weighting of Performance Measures; Dipankar Ghosh, Anne Wu, and Ling-Chu Lee