Centre for Empirical Research on Organizational Control (CEROC)
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Research Domains
- Humanities-Social sciences
Areas of Research
- Economic, organizational and social aspects of management accounting and control
- Institutional change and organizational control
- Socio-ideological controls in contemporary organizations
The research performed in CEROC proceeds from the common belief that management control is crucial to the functioning of modern organizations. However, to more fully understand the roles and development of contemporary management control practices in today?s organizations, we argue that they should be studied within the context in which they are situated. The overall objective for CEROC is therefore to establish an international presence in research into the organizational, social, ethical and economic aspects of management control practices. Within this overall theme, fellows of the research center are working on a number of topics clustered around the following two themes:
- Use, consequences and change of different kinds of administrative controls, with a particular focus on accounting-based systems and practices.
- Use, consequences and change of different socio-ideological controls such as codes of conduct, and organizational and professional identities.
To more fully understand the workings and consequences of different control mechanisms, research at CEROC also takes interest in how they may interact in different types ?control packages? (i.e. combinations of control mechanisms). CEROC also encourages research based on a broad range of disciplines (e.g. organization theory, sociology, critical theory and economic theory), and methods (e.g. longitudinal case and field studies and cross-sectional surveys).
Researchers
- Gun Abrahamsson
- Katarina Arbin
- Tommy Borglund
- Sabina Du Rietz
- Hans Englund
- Per Forsberg
- Magnus Frostenson
- Jonas Gerdin
- Jan Greve
- Magnus Hansson
- Hans Hasselbladh
- Sven Helin
- Tobias Johansson
- Andreas Nilsson
- Gabriella Wennblom
- Cecilia Ekström, PhD student
- Malin Härström, PhD student
- Leanne Johnstone, PhD student
- Simon Lundh, PhD student
- Karin Seger, PhD student
- Kristina Sutter-Beime, PhD student
Research Projects
- A study of how self-regulated cooperation is made possible through notched sticks
- Accounting choices in small limited companies: The role of accounting experts and their identity work
- Accounting for Science: Performance Management Systems and Researchers' Identities
- Change and renewal of management accounting systems
- E-commerce and FMCG - Impact on economy, sustainability and network organization of distribution
- Management control systems as a package ? configurations, interrelationships, and effectiveness of MCS
- Institutions, technology and organizations
- Inter-organizational management control in public sector outsourcing
- Configurations of PMS
- Leadership and work environment during restructuring - A study of training intervention
- Management accounting and gender
- Performance management in the educational sector
- Public sector institutional change
- The labor contract and the governing of the modern work force