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Organizational Research Methods | 2006

Making the Case for Narrative Methods in Cross-Cultural Organizational Research

Kim Soin; Tobias Scheytt

The prevailing literature on cross-cultural research in management studies has tended to conceptualize the meaning and the impact of culture on organizations by using distinct categories. This article argues that given the embedded nature of organizations, a narrative methodology offers an alternative and complementary approach to developing our understanding in cross-cultural research. Using examples of story-driven investigations into cultural differences, it explains the potential of this approach. It therefore seeks to offer a contribution to the variety of methods for organizational research on cross-cultural issues.


Journal of Management Studies | 2006

Introduction: Organizations, Risk and Regulation

Tobias Scheytt; Kim Soin; Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson; Michael Power

Risk, regulation and practices of organizing are interrelated in a myriad of ways. Natural disasters, technical failures, and also processes of organizing are sources of risk to which organizations must respond and for which new managerial and regulatory practices are demanded. In this introduction we highlight three salient features of risk management: the (un)intended production of risk by organizations; the complex interrelationship between risk management and regulation; and the evolving and often contested nature of risk management knowledge. Each of these three themes is evident in the different contributions to this themed section.


European Accounting Review | 2003

Exploring Notions of Control across Cultures: A Narrative Approach

Tobias Scheytt; Kim Soin; Thomas Metz

It can be argued that the concept of control is one of the most important and yet complex notions of management accounting theory and practice. Despite its importance, it is not fully understood in terms of its significance in an international context. Using an interpretive approach and against the background of structuration theory, this paper explores and identifies differences in notions of control across European cultures. The empirical research is based on samples of narratives of personal experiences taken from respondents in four European countries: Austria, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. The results indicate that control is influenced by, and deeply embedded in, the cultural context of the respective countries. This has implications for the transfer of management accounting and control knowledge across different European countries and suggests that one has to be aware of the existence, meaning and significance of the differences and characteristics of the regional culture. In an era of internationalization and standardization, this paper responds to calls (Hopwood, 1999) for research, which emphasizes the importance of attempts to understand how the practices of management accounting and control are differentiated in relation to regional cultures.


Handbooks of Management Accounting Research | 2009

Management Accounting in Financial Services

Kim Soin; Tobias Scheytt

Abstract This chapter focuses on the changing role of management accounting and control in the financial services sector over the last 25 years. It identifies two key phases that impacted the use and nature of management accounting systems. The first phase relates to the (global) deregulation of the industry and shows how, as a result of increased competition, a new emphasis on efficiency and effectiveness emerged. Management accounting techniques (such as activity-based costing (ABC) and the balanced scorecard) became the primary devices to manage costs and performance. The chapter then highlights how, during the second phase of reregulation and the resulting changes in the industry, management accounting was replaced by risk as the central issue in internal control. The chapter concludes that management accounting and control systems have had a short career in financial services, yet might again attain more relevance for practice and research once the limitations of risk management, like the neglect of strategic risks and the difficulties of grasping operational risks, are fully realized.


Archive | 2007

Messen und Managen: Controlling und die (Un-)Berechenbarkeit des Managements

Martin Messner; Tobias Scheytt; Albrecht Becker

Controlling ist in Mode. In Organisationen aller Formen und Zwecke werden heute vermehrt Methoden der quantifizierenden Darstellung, Kalkulation und Bewertung eingesetzt. Produkte und Leistungen werden hinsichtlich ihrer Kosten kalkuliert; Ziele werden durch Quantifizierung operationalisiert; die Qualitat der Kundenbeziehungen wird in Zahlen ausgedruckt; Investitionen werden danach beurteilt, welche Rendite sie versprechen; und nicht zuletzt wird menschliche Arbeit durch Stundensatze, Gemeinkostenzuschlage o.a. messbar gemacht. Die Folge ist, dass die vom Controlling produzierten Zahlen zunehmend Prozesse der Gestaltung und Steuerung von Organisationen durchdringen. Sie gelten in der Praxis nicht selten als einzig zulassige Referenz fur die sachrationale Interpretation organisationalen Geschehens und werden, in der Folge, fur die Legitimierung organisationalen Handelns herangezogen.


Archive | 2018

Kommentar zum Beitrag „Controlling – eine bis heute rätselhafte Entwicklungs- und Ideengeschichte“ von Hans-Ulrich Küpper

Tobias Scheytt

Die Reflexionen von Hans‐Ulrich Kupper in diesem Band zeigen sehr prazise nach, wie sich das Controlling als Teildisziplin der BWL, aus vielfaltigen Quellen gespeist, entwickelt hat. In Variation von Kuppers Beitrag wird hier die These vertreten, dass eine Vielfalt konkurrierender Konzeptionen, wie sie sich in der kurzen Geschichte der Controllingtheorie entwickelt hat, nicht nur als ein Kennzeichen von konzeptioneller Unreife, sondern auch als Ausdruck eines sich immer weiter entfaltenden Diskurses verstanden werden kann. Ich fundiere diese These unter Bezugnahme auf das Beispiel eines Theoriestrangs, der in der internationalen Diskussion unter dem Label des „critical accounting“ eine interdisziplinare Offnung und zugleich Fundierung der Controllingtheorie ermoglicht hat: die Thematisierung des Controllings und seiner Wirkungen im sozialen und organisationalen Kontext.


Archive | 2017

»I’m fucking smart« – Narzisstische Führungskräfte und ihre Wirkung auf Organisationskulturen

Christian Huber; Tobias Scheytt

Der Beitrag diskutiert Aufstieg und Fall des US-amerikanischen Energieversorgers ENRON Corp., wie er im Dokumentarfilm ENRON: The Smartest Guys in the Room dargestellt wird. Gefragt wird danach, ob ENRON durch eine krankhaft narzisstische Organisationskultur gepragt war und inwiefern der spektakulare Zusammenbruch des Unternehmens dadurch ausgelost wurde. Dafur wird zunachst erortert, inwieweit das Konzept einer narzisstischen Storung auch fur die Kennzeichnung ganzer Organisationskulturen herangezogen werden kann. Im Anschluss wird die Organisationskultur der ENRON Corp. geschildert und gefragt, ob deren Organisationskultur eine narzisstische Grundhaltung erkennen lasst. Ein Fazit skizziert schlieslich einige Konsequenzen fur die Organisations(kultur)forschung, die sich aus dem ENRON-Fall und seiner filmischen Schilderung ergeben.


Organization Studies | 2009

Reputational Risk as a Logic of Organizing in Late Modernity

Michael Power; Tobias Scheytt; Kim Soin; Kerstin Sahlin


Higher Education Quarterly | 2005

The Complexity of Change in Universities

Claudia Meister‐Scheytt; Tobias Scheytt


Management Accounting Research | 2013

The Dispositif of Risk Management: Reconstructing Risk Management after the Financial Crisis

Christian Huber; Tobias Scheytt

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Kim Soin

King's College London

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Michael Power

London School of Economics and Political Science

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Christian Huber

Helmut Schmidt University

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Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson

London School of Economics and Political Science

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Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson

London School of Economics and Political Science

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