Sixth Conference on Actor‐Reality Construction

Hamilton House, University of Greenwich, UK
01 Sep ‐ 02 Sep, 2016

Thursday 1th September 

8:30  Registration

9:00‐9:10   Welcome

9:10‐10:10
A Pragmatic Constructivist Approach to Studying Difference and Change in Management Accounting Practice.
Falconer Mitchell

Opening the horizon of time: On practice generalization, pragmatic truth and the relativity of the particular‐general distinction in a PC‐perspective.
Lennart Nørreklit

10:10‐10:30  Coffee

10:30‐11:30
Pragmatic Constructivism as a Methodology to Explain and Understand a Quality
Incident in Food Manufacturing
Sally‐Ann Krzyzaniak,

Language games of management accounting research
Nikolaj Kure, Hanne Nørreklit and Morten Raffnsøe‐Møller

11:30‐12:30  Salon: Pragmatic constructivism and social explanations

12:30‐13:30  Lunch

13:30‐14:30
An actor‐based approach to performance management
Mihaela Trenca and Hanne Nørreklit

Constructing management accounting and control systems ‐ building a bridge between Theoretical‐rational economic logic and practical‐managerial work
Teemu Laine, Hanne Nørreklit, Tuomas Korhonen, Petri Suomala

14:30‐14:45  Coffee

14:45‐15.45
Making up Performance: The Construction of “Performance” in Venture Capital Firms’ Portfolios
Rafael Heinzelmann

Orcheastring Strategic Co‐Authorship
Gudrun Baldvinsdottir and Christian Heidarson

15.45‐16.45  Salon:  Studying actorship and co‐authorship

19:00‐22:00  Dinner

 

 

Friday 2th September 

9:00‐10.00
Performance‐based budgeting in public sector: a pragmatic constructivism perspective
Lino Cinquini, Sara Giovanna Mauro and Daniela Pianezzi

Hotels and Room Rate Pricing: Applying the PC framework
Ruth Mattimoe

10:00‐10:15  Coffee

10:15‐11.15
The validity in hospitals’ performance planning as a technique of outcome estimation
Antonio Leotta, Daniela Ruggeri, Monica Castro

Application of PC for public sector research
Pinar Guven‐Uslu

11.15‐12.15  Salon: Doing research on New Public Management

12:15‐13:15  Lunch

13:15‐14:15
How can organisational actors contextualise CSR standards to create functioning CSR practices?
Mai S. Linneberg and Mihaela Trenca

A pragmatic constructivist approach to studying fraud?
Lisa Jack

14:15‐14:30 Coffee

14:30‐15.00
A Pragmatic Constructivist Approach to Management Accounting and Sustainability
Suzana Sulaiman, Sharifah Fadzlon Abdul Hamid, Zairul Nurshazana Zainuddin, Eley Suzana Kasim & Norlaila Md Zin

15:00‐16.00  Salon: Developing research projects addressing relevant research problems

16:00‐16.30  What then? And say goodbye!