Abu Kasim, Nor Aziah (2006) Stories of Accounting Change During Financial Reform of Public Enterprises. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 14 (2). pp. 111-119. ISSN 0128-7702
This paper analytically compares five commercially-oriented public enterprises from different countries which were subjected to the process of accounting and organisational changes in order to become profitable. The five case studies were selected for their attention to the importance of context, and to the process of how and why accounting evolved, interpreted and used within specific organisations. A comparison of the insights drawn from these case stories allows some possible lessons to be learnt and parallels to be drawn. The comparison reveals that the process of organisational change through accounting is complex and may not always evolve as an influential and effective means of altering behaviour and accepted ways of thinking. One vital lesson is that accounting change is implicated with various other non-technical issues such as environmental pressures, culture or ways of thinking, power and trust.
|Keyword:||Public enterprises, case studies, accounting change, non-technical issues and ways of thinking|
|Faculty or Institute:||Faculty of Economics and Management|
|Publisher:||Universiti Putra Malaysia Press|
|Deposited By:||Nur Izyan Mohd Zaki|
|Deposited On:||30 Nov 2009 04:11|
|Last Modified:||27 May 2013 07:09|
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