Essays about: "accountants"
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1. THE SHIFTING DYNAMICS BETWEEN WORK AND LIFE IN REMOTE WORKING
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, kommunikation och lärandeAbstract : Purpose: Aiming to investigate how knowledge workers organise their work through boundary practice in remote working, this study has partnered with one online consulting company who provides professional accounting services to third party customers. This study tries to explore 1) how accountants organize their work through managing and shaping their physical and temporal boundaries to establish flexibility in remote working; 2) how are technologies harnessed to manage work-life boundaries in the context of remote working. READ MORE
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2. Digitalization and Resistance Management within Management Accounting - The impact of national culture differences on resistance to organizational change
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Despite being considered by the majority as a positive change, digitalization has changed the fundamental roles of management accountants and this has led to resistance to organizational change within management accounting due to the cannibalization costs associated with digital changes. In dealing with such resistance, MNEs use their domestic rooted organizational culture as a tool to manage resistance to digitalization. READ MORE
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3. Navigating Complexity: Understanding the Multifaceted Roles of the Accountant : A Quantitative Study of the Roles Assumed by Accountants in Swedish Family SMEs From the CEOs perspective
University essay fromAbstract : Purpose: The objective of this master's thesis is to investigate the factors that trigger the accountants to assume the diverse roles in Swedish SMEs within various business contexts. Theoretical perspective: To satisfy the aim of this thesis we relied on role theory, organizational demography and socioemotional wealth. READ MORE
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4. Above all else: an innovative entrepreneur - A study of management accountants' occupational identity within a healthcare provider
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansieringAbstract : Through a single case study, this paper explores the construction of management accountants' occupational identity within a hybrid healthcare provider, pseudonymized as DigiCare. 15 interviews were conducted at DigiCare, covering employees from the finance function, medical operations, and senior management. READ MORE
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5. Balancing the books and the planet: A single-case study investigating the relation between sustainability involvement and the occupational identity of management accountants
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansieringAbstract : Through practice of a single-case study, this paper aims to shed new light on the interdisciplinary area of management accountants' approach to, and involvement in, sustainability-related activities. Through the application of identity theory, with particular influence from Hughes' (1951) findings of a moral division of labour and Thornborrow and Brown's (2009) concept of aspirational identities, we show the existence of an interdependent relationship between the occupational identity of management accountants, and their engagement towards sustainability reporting and adjacent activities. READ MORE