Actor-Reality Construction - 5th Conference

ESCP Europe, Paris Campus
September 3-4 2015

DAY 1: Thursday, 3rd September 2015

8:00  Coffee and Registration

9:00-9:10  Opening plenary session: Welcome & Introduction

 

9:10-10:20
Morning session 1:  35min per paper (15min presentation, 20min discussion)

Paper #1: Pinar Guven-Usulu
Adaptation of balanced score card and implementation of waiting time targets to English National Health Service: Longitudinal case study of a large hospital

Paper #2: Lennart Nørreklit
Reality construction and methodology – on concepts, co-narration and multiple realities

 

10:20-10:30  Coffee

 

10:30-11:40
Morning session 2: 35min per paper (10min presentation, 20min discussion)

Paper #3: Mihaela Trenca
Understanding individuals’ learning processes in the context of Management Accounting Systems

Paper #4: Lino Cinquini, Cristina Campanale, Daniela Pianezzi, Andrea Tenucci
Discovering organizational actors’ reality by a discourse analysis

 

11:40-12:40 Morning salon: Conceptualizing and managing multiple realities

12:40-14:00  Lunch

 

14:00-15:10
Afternoon session 1: 35min per paper (15min presentation, 20min discussion)

Paper #5: Emmi Tervala, Teemu Laine, Petri Suomala, Tuomas Korhonen
Financial control supporting New Product Development project managers

Paper #6: Falconer Mitchell, Hanne Nørreklit, Lennart Nørreklit
The trustworthiness of performance measurement

 

15:10-15:20  Coffee

 

15:20-16.30
Afternoon session 2: 35min per paper (15min presentation, 20min discussion)

Paper #7: Gudrun Baldvinsdottir
Thriving at the cost of society

Paper #8: Nikolaj Kure, Morten Jakobsen, Hanne Nørreklit, Camilla Kølsen Pedersen, Kristian Røge
The lack of validity in new public management

 

16.30-17.30  Afternoon salon: Sense and power in performance measurement

19:00-22:00  Dinner

 

DAY 2: Friday, 4th September 2015
9:00-10.10
Morning session 1: 35min per paper (15min presentation, 20min discussion)

Paper #9: Will Seal and Ruth Mattimoe
Any map is better than no map: a pragmatic constructivist perspective on sense
making in management control

Paper #10: Lisa Jack
Does pragmatic constructivism complement strong structuration theory?

 

10:10-10:20  Coffee

 

10:20-11.30
Morning session 2: 35min per paper (15min presentation, 20min discussion)

Paper #11: Morten Jakobsen
What some established meta-theories used by management accounting scholars can learn from pragmatic constructivism

Paper #12: Martyn Jones and Haider Shah
Labour costing into the 21st century – an exploratory study of panoptical control issues

 

11.30-12.30  Morning salon: the relationship between pragmatic constructivism and other perspectives

12:30-13:30  Lunch

 

13:30-15:15
Afternoon session 1: 35min per paper (15min presentation, 20min discussion)

Paper #13: Rafael Heinzelmann
Making up performance: the construction of “performance” in Venture capital firms portfolios

Paper #14: Antonio Leotta, Carmela Rizza, Daniela Ruggeri
The role of management accounting in the construction of the new generation leadership in family firms. An Actor-Reality perspective

Paper #15: Daniela Pianezzi, Lino Cinquini
Accounting and human rights: An ethical approach to pragmatic constructivism

 

15:15-15.30 Coffee

 

15.30-16.30  Afternoon salon: possibilities and rights of the entrepreneurial actor in the global economy

16:30-17.00  Closing plenary session: What then? And say goodbye