My thesis focuses on the use of controlling management in a building company in terms of accounting management. The theoretical part deals with basic terms that are essential for understanding of this field. The practical part of my thesis, proceeding from the theoretical part, provides a real construction order from a point of the controlling management´s view and introduces possible changes for efficient increase of future construction orders at a particular company.

Thesis (Master of Management Accounting)--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2019 / This study investigates the extent to which manufacturing small and medium enterprises use management accounting tools (MATs) to improve their business performance. The study was based on two MATs, namely budgeting tools and the strategic management tool (SMT), such as the balanced scorecard (BSC), which are considered critical for the sustainability of SMEs. The study was positioned within a quantitative research approach and data was collected from 82 respondents by means of a questionnaire consisting of closed-ended questions. The collected data was analysed using SPSS (version 25.0) software and presented in the form of tables, frequencies and figures, such as bar and pie charts, in order to understand the trends. The findings revealed that of the two MATs, only a few respondents used the BSC while the majority of respondents used budgeting tools. The results also indicate that certain respondents mostly used MATs, such as the BSC and budgeting tools, for improving their business performance. The BSC was perceived to be the most effective MAT, while the budgeting tools were rated second. This study suggests that some training programmes could be developed for use within the various sector education and training authorities (SETAs) which will assist in educating the SMEs‟ decision-makers on the importance of implementing MATs

Thesis (MTech (Cost and Management Accounting))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2019 / The risk that borrowers may not fulfil borrowing obligation presents credit owners (lenders) with a default risk management opportunity to maximize risk-adjusted rate of return and maintain minimum exposure to default associated cost. This study investigated respondents' perception of the cost of credit default and examines requirements for default risk management (ORM) in the vehicle finance industry in South Africa. It is noted that with increased level of consumer indebtedness, an unstable economy, and high unemployment, vehicle financing faces a higher probability of default from borrowers. This descriptive investigation utilised both the quantitative and qualitative approaches using the survey method to collect data from 381 purposive, randomly selected respondents who are vehicle finance customers in South Africa; Cape Town specifically. Data collection took place in the Western Cape over a nine months period, utilising personal interview, and emails to administer open-ended questionnaires for credit managers and close-ended questionnaires, for the vehicle finances' customers, as data collection instrument. Responses received were codified and quantitative data was analysed using the Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS version 25) while qualitative data was analysed using the content analysis of percentage of word similarities. The study found mixed and variable respondents' perception of the cost of credit default. In conclusion, it is perceived that in South Africa the cost of credit would become more costly with credit default. It can be recommended that a default risk management intervention could be applied to mitigate the risk of credit default within the context of unified credit assessment policy of South Africa.

Abstract In the current scenario of the business world, organizations face the pervasive problem of corporate fraud. This leads to huge losses and deprivation results in reduced profitability, diminished shareholders returns, loss of growth in opportunities and in certain cases even these threaten the sustainability of the organizations. Though dedicated investigations units and courts, specific legislation enhanced awareness and monitoring organizations in developing countries but still corporate fraud are abound. Therefore, establishing the key drivers for corporate fraud will enable the organizations to better evaluate their risk strategy and also to understand how to reanalyzing the role of corporate governance in regards to corporate fraud in developing countries. The qualitative research was used firstly with deductive approach in this study in order to establish the key drivers of corporate fraud; and secondly, to assess the role of corporate governance in addressing these drivers of corporate fraud. A total number of 10 structured, and semi-structured on-line based interviews through Zoom were conducted with the gatekeepers, bank managers and the compliance officers in a diverse range of organizations to explore this research. A further 2 interviews were conducted with the experts in the field of forensic investigation and corporate governance, whose insights views were used to test the initial findings for the triangulation process. The insight derived formed the basis of the data which was analyzed to produce the findings for this research. From this research, both the internal and external drivers of corporate fraud identified some common themes, though the diverse nature of the organizations researched. Illegal collusion between employees as well as financial distress because of recent economic failure were found to be amongst the key drivers. More particularly, findings indicated that corporate governance does and even play a critical role in regards to these drivers, and thus making the organization more conscious and proactive to address corporate fraud. Nevertheless, poor and inadequate implementation of corporate governance standards weakens the effectiveness. Thereupon, the real picture is that corporate governance is not legislated and contributes to the haphazard manner in which this is applied in different organizations in developing countries. To conclude that, corporate governance needs to be more supported by an ethical culture which can therefore serve its actual purpose. Despite findings, evidence that corporate governance is neglected by certain organizations. However, the findings from the derived triangulations exercise in strong support on the above findings. / <p>This thesis has been published by Md Abdul Baten &amp; Clara Chidinma Amadi.</p>

Executive replacements have historically created fluctuations in the market value of a company and precipitated inappropriate investor reaction. However, the direction and statistical significance of relationships between executive turnover, market value, financial risk, and investor reaction among a census of highly performing firms was previously unexplored. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of the relationship between CEO turnover and indicators of company performance. Theoretical foundation for this study was the efficient markets hypothesis. Hypotheses tests were designed to support an ex-post facto research methodology for pre-post comparison of volatility of financial metrics, which are indicators of market value (market value added), investor reaction (Tobin's q), risk (beta), executive performance (economic value added and return on assets), and turnover frequency given CEO succession. Statistically significant differences in firm risk emerged from comparisons of highly performing firms exemplified in the foundational leadership text Good to Great. Approximately 45 % of firms sampled did not experience volatility of financial metrics, which supported the presence of a leadership legacy, or strategic management behavior which minimized financial risk. Contrary to prior studies, financial metrics sampled within an interval immediately surrounding the succession event were less indicative of significant financial risk as compared to metrics sampled over the entire tenure of executives. Implications for positive social change include reducing investor risk in selection of equity holdings; capital fairly directed to entities results in benefits for society including job creation, economic stimulus, safer retirement accounts, and corporate sustainability.

Структура магистерской диссертации включает в себя введение, три главы, заключение, список использованных источников и приложения. В первой главе рассмотрены теоретические основы бюджетирования на предприятии. Во второй главе исследованы методы управления хозяйственной деятельностью и алгоритмы принятия управленческих решений. В третьей главе разработаны основные направления совершенствования системы бюджетирования на предприятии ООО «Известь Сысерти». В заключении сформированы основные выводы. / The structure of the master's thesis includes an introduction, three chapters, a conclusion, a list of references and applications. The first chapter examines the theoretical foundations of enterprise budgeting. The second chapter examines methods of managing economic activities and algorithms for making managerial decisions. In the third chapter, the main directions of improving the budgeting system at the Izvest Sysert LLC enterprise are developed. In the conclusion, the main conclusions are formed.

O objetivo desta dissertação de mestrado foi examinar a configuração atual do campo de pesquisa de Contabilidade Gerencial a partir dos enfoques temáticos e das relações dos teóricos dentro da comunidade de pesquisadores da área com apoio da Teoria das Redes Complexas. Discute-se a evolução temática das últimas décadas e a configuração das relações entre os teóricos nessa rede de publicação, apresentando assim, um mapa estrutural dessa rede de produção científica. A justificativa deste estudo reside no fato de que ao compreender a rede em sua plenitude, os atores podem compreender e analisar, sob uma melhor crítica, as informações que circulam, e assim, também, melhor interagir com outros atores. A questão central aqui tratada foi a compreensão da tendência temática e autoral observada do campo da Contabilidade Gerencial que se obtém a partir do mapeamento dos trabalhos publicados no período de 2001 a 2011, segundo a análise da rede de pesquisadores que publicam nos principais periódicos mundiais. Baseia-se em teorias e técnicas ainda pouco exploradas para a compreensão da área contábil, quais sejam as Teorias das Redes Complexas e dos Sistemas Complexos de maneira mais geral. Este trabalho se apresenta de forma exploratória e descritiva e pretende ser uma continuação e adaptação do trabalho de Hesford et al. (2007). Várias medidas e simulações de redes foram elaboradas por meio de um banco de dados no qual foram reunidos autores citados e autores que citaram nos artigos publicados. Os resultados mostram que a quantidade de artigos em Contabilidade Gerencial tem permanecido constante em relação percentual (27%) com o total de artigos em Contabilidade de maneira geral nos últimos trinta anos. Além dos periódicos especializados em Contabilidade Gerencial (MAR e JMAR), os periódicos AOS e TAR se mostraram grandes difusores da produção científica da área. Muitos dos autores que aparecem neste estudo com alto grau de centralidade de rede permanecem nessa condição há mais de vinte anos. Tal fato sugere que há pouca renovação entre os autores com alto grau de centralidade. Quanto às simulações pode-se confrontar uma rede maior formada por todos os autores que citaram e todos que foram citados e que se mostra bem densa e formada por milhares de autores. De maneira mais centralizada, quando se isola por meio de uma rede menor formada somente pelos principais agentes e suas ligações dentro da rede fica mais claro que as citações desses autores, tanto emitidas quanto recebidas, se concentram bem no centro da rede maior, ou seja, não é observado nessas citações um longo alcance dentro da rede, de maneira tal, que isso sugere um comportamento endógeno das relações de citações entre os autores, ou seja, a presença de citações circulares onde diversos autores se citam de maneira contínua. / The aim of the study is to examine the current configuration of the Management Accounting Research field from the thematic approaches and relationships among researchers in the network with support of Complex Networks Theory. It discusses the thematic evolution of recent decades and the configuration of the relationships among theorists in this publication network, presented as a structural map of this scientific production. The central thesis addressed was the understanding of the thematic and authorial trend of Management Accounting fields obtained from the mapping of the papers published in the period 2001-2011 according to the analysis of network researchers who have published in major world journals. Drawing on the Theories of Complex Networks and Complex Systems this study is described as an exploratory and descriptive one and it is based on the work of Hesford et al. (2007). Several measures and networks simulations were prepared through a database with cited authors and authors that have cited in the papers examined. The results show that the amount of publication in the Management Accounting field has remained constant (27%) compared to the total number of articles in General Accounting over the past thirty years. In addition to the specialized journals in Management Accounting (MAR and JMAR), the AOS and TAR proved to be large diffusers of the scientific production in the area. Many of the authors appearing in this study with a high degree of network centrality have remained in this condition for over twenty years. This suggests that there is little renewal among authors with a high degree of centrality. Through simulations, it is possible to confront a dense and larger network composed of all authors cited and all authors that have addressed citations. In comparison, when isolating the main agents and their connections within the network through a smaller network, it is shown that the citation of the authors, issued and received, is concentrated in the center of the larger network. Therefore, it is not observed in those citations a long reach within the network in such a manner that suggests an endogenous behavior of relations among authors, in other words, there is the presence of circular citations where many authors cite themselves and cite authors from a small group continuously.

A tese investiga controle gerencial como prática social e organizacional a partir de três paradigmas de pesquisa. Foi realizada etnografia em empresa brasileira, utilizando-se de shadowing, teoria fundamentada, entrevistas, observação, análise retórica, de documentos e visuais. No paradigma neofuncionalista, desenvolve teoria fundamentada construcionista para entender como controles sociotécnicos interagem com socioideológicos. Apesar de possuir tecnologias sociotécnicas, tais como \"custeio baseado em atividades\", \"balanced scorecard\", \"orçamento empresarial\", \"planejamento\", elas não são utilizadas como previsto na literatura gerencialista. Ao invés disso, formas sutis de controles socioideológicos, como retórica, políticas de recrutamento, controles sociais, liderança carismática, combinadas com tecnologia de controle híbrida desenvolvida pela empresa, fazem com que funcionários avaliem, implicitamente, custos e viabilidade econômica de suas ações. Essa tecnologia foi apresentada, inicialmente, como ferramenta de inovação, mas no estudo revelou-se como um controle totalizante, mais rígido do que os existentes na literatura. O papel gerencial da contabilidade é fornecido pela demonstração de resultados societária sintética para análise da participação nos lucros. Desse modo, controles socioideológicos substituem contabilidade gerencial. Desenvolveram-se três categorias conceituais para explicação dos achados: equifinalidade de custos e gestão econômica, tecnologia de controle híbrida e estruturas de consciência econômica. Os paradigmas remanescentes estudam a tecnologia híbrida. No interpretativista, a teoria da prática de Schatzki, investiga como funcionários realizam as práticas, identificando-se aprendizado, arranjos, memórias, regras e direcionamento para a ação. No crítico, o paradigma pós-estruturalista analisa política, história, instituições, poder e conflito, com a teoria pós-estruturalista do discurso de Laclau e Mouffe, baseada em psicanálise lacaniana, linguística, ideologia, estruturalismo, desconstrução, genealogia e teoria crítica. Através da lógica da explicação crítica de Glynos e Howarth, desenvolvem-se três grupos de lógicas. Nas lógicas políticas, identifica-se como a empresa converteu um canal de comunicação na década de 1980, em tecnologia de controle nos anos 2000. Desenvolve-se o conceito de instituições políticas de controle, para relatar o cenário político, macroeconômico, institucional e regulatório do Brasil entre 1980 a 2010. Identificou-se sua relação com controle gerencial e como gestores utilizaram discursos universais como \"qualidade\" e \"inovação\", em ações para legitimar a tecnologia híbrida, tornando-os significantes vazios. Nas lógicas sociais, emergiram as lógicas da coletividade, produtividade criativa, controle descentrado, competição e econômica. Nas lógicas fantasmáticas, as fantasias do consumo, fetiche dos prêmios, modismos gerenciais, do herói, família, cuidados e atenção pelos superiores explicam o porquê da tecnologia ser bem-sucedida. Ao final, realiza-se intertextualidade entre paradigmas. O trabalho acrescenta à literatura internacional lacunas de abordagens institucionais e da prática, como a teorização do sujeito e o relacionamento entre universal e particular, introduzindo novas tipologias e questionando a capacidade destas abordagens de explicar processo. Além disso, adiciona conceitos à literatura e contesta pesquisas anteriores sobre o tema. Contribui com a pesquisa no Brasil, discutindo paradigmas alternativos ao positivismo e funcionalismo, permitindo o desenvolvimento de linhas de pesquisa. Os conceitos e categorias gerados possibilitam generalização teórica a partir da noção de \"semelhanças de família\" de Wittgeinstein. Desenvolvem-se três tipologias para pesquisas. O estudo demonstra a necessidade da academia se engajar em debate crítico sobre modismos gerenciais, teoria da contabilidade gerencial, gerencialismo dos livros-textos e aspectos humanos e sociais da contabilidade. / The thesis investigates management control as social and organizational practice from three paradigms of research. Ethnography in a Brazilian company was carried out by using shadowing, grounded theory, interviews, observation, rhetoric analysis, documents and visual analysis. In the neo-functionalist paradigm develops grounded theory on constructionist in order to understand how socio-technical controls interact with socio-ideological. Despite having socio-technical technologies, such as \"activity-based costing\", \"balanced scorecard\", \"budget\", \"strategic planning\", which are not used as provided in managerial literature. Instead, subtle forms of socio-ideological controls, like rhetoric, recruiting policies, social controls, charismatic leadership, aligned with technology of hybrid control developed by company, enables employees to evaluate implicitly costs and economic feasibility of their actions. This technology was first introduced as an innovation tool; nevertheless, no study has revealed as a totalizing control, more rigid than the ones existing in literature. The management role of accounting is given by corporate statements results summarized for the analysis of participation over profits. Thus, socio-ideological controls replace management accounting. Three conceptual categories were developed to explain the research findings: equifinality of costs and economic management, hybrid control technology and structures of economic consciousness. The remaining paradigms study the hybrid technology. In the interpretivist paradigm, the theory of Schatzki´s practice investigates how employees perform the practices, by identifying the learning, arrangements, memories, rules and guidance for action. In the critical, the post-structuralist paradigm analysis political, historical, institutions, power and conflict with the post-structuralist discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe, based on Lacan´s psychoanalysis, linguistics, structuralism, deconstruction, genealogy and critical theory. Three groups of logics were developed through the logic of Glynos and Howarth critical explanation. In the political logics, it is possible to identify how a company converted a channel of communication in the 1980s into technology of control in the 2000s. The concept of political institutions of control is being developed, as to relate to political, macroeconomics, institutional and regulatory Brazilian scenario between 1980 to 2010. Its relation with management control was identified and, as managers, used universal discourses such as \"quality\" and \"innovation\", in actions to legitimate the hybrid technology, turning them significantly without meaning. In social logics, the logics of collectivity, creative productivity, decentralized control, competition and economic came up. In the fantasmatic logics, consume fantasy, awards fetishes, management fashions, of the hero, family, care and attention by the superiors explain the reason why technology is well-succeed. Summarizing, intertextuality among paradigms is accomplished. The thesis also adds to international literature gaps of institutional and practice approaches, such as theorization of the subject and the relationship between universal and particular, introducing new typologies and questioning the capacity of those process explanation approaches. Besides that, it adds up the concepts to literature and challenges previous studies on the subject. It contributes with the research in Brazil, discussing alternative paradigms to positivism and functionalism, allowing the development of research lines. The concepts and categories generated enable theoretical generalization from the notion of \"family resemblances\" of Wittgeinstein. Three typologies for researches are developed. The study illustrates the need of the academia to engage in a critical debate about management fashions, theory of management accounting, the managerialism of textbooks as well as social and human aspects of the accounting.

O objetivo desta dissertação de mestrado foi examinar a configuração atual do campo de pesquisa de Contabilidade Gerencial a partir dos enfoques temáticos e das relações dos teóricos dentro da comunidade de pesquisadores da área com apoio da Teoria das Redes Complexas. Discute-se a evolução temática das últimas décadas e a configuração das relações entre os teóricos nessa rede de publicação, apresentando assim, um mapa estrutural dessa rede de produção científica. A justificativa deste estudo reside no fato de que ao compreender a rede em sua plenitude, os atores podem compreender e analisar, sob uma melhor crítica, as informações que circulam, e assim, também, melhor interagir com outros atores. A questão central aqui tratada foi a compreensão da tendência temática e autoral observada do campo da Contabilidade Gerencial que se obtém a partir do mapeamento dos trabalhos publicados no período de 2001 a 2011, segundo a análise da rede de pesquisadores que publicam nos principais periódicos mundiais. Baseia-se em teorias e técnicas ainda pouco exploradas para a compreensão da área contábil, quais sejam as Teorias das Redes Complexas e dos Sistemas Complexos de maneira mais geral. Este trabalho se apresenta de forma exploratória e descritiva e pretende ser uma continuação e adaptação do trabalho de Hesford et al. (2007). Várias medidas e simulações de redes foram elaboradas por meio de um banco de dados no qual foram reunidos autores citados e autores que citaram nos artigos publicados. Os resultados mostram que a quantidade de artigos em Contabilidade Gerencial tem permanecido constante em relação percentual (27%) com o total de artigos em Contabilidade de maneira geral nos últimos trinta anos. Além dos periódicos especializados em Contabilidade Gerencial (MAR e JMAR), os periódicos AOS e TAR se mostraram grandes difusores da produção científica da área. Muitos dos autores que aparecem neste estudo com alto grau de centralidade de rede permanecem nessa condição há mais de vinte anos. Tal fato sugere que há pouca renovação entre os autores com alto grau de centralidade. Quanto às simulações pode-se confrontar uma rede maior formada por todos os autores que citaram e todos que foram citados e que se mostra bem densa e formada por milhares de autores. De maneira mais centralizada, quando se isola por meio de uma rede menor formada somente pelos principais agentes e suas ligações dentro da rede fica mais claro que as citações desses autores, tanto emitidas quanto recebidas, se concentram bem no centro da rede maior, ou seja, não é observado nessas citações um longo alcance dentro da rede, de maneira tal, que isso sugere um comportamento endógeno das relações de citações entre os autores, ou seja, a presença de citações circulares onde diversos autores se citam de maneira contínua. / The aim of the study is to examine the current configuration of the Management Accounting Research field from the thematic approaches and relationships among researchers in the network with support of Complex Networks Theory. It discusses the thematic evolution of recent decades and the configuration of the relationships among theorists in this publication network, presented as a structural map of this scientific production. The central thesis addressed was the understanding of the thematic and authorial trend of Management Accounting fields obtained from the mapping of the papers published in the period 2001-2011 according to the analysis of network researchers who have published in major world journals. Drawing on the Theories of Complex Networks and Complex Systems this study is described as an exploratory and descriptive one and it is based on the work of Hesford et al. (2007). Several measures and networks simulations were prepared through a database with cited authors and authors that have cited in the papers examined. The results show that the amount of publication in the Management Accounting field has remained constant (27%) compared to the total number of articles in General Accounting over the past thirty years. In addition to the specialized journals in Management Accounting (MAR and JMAR), the AOS and TAR proved to be large diffusers of the scientific production in the area. Many of the authors appearing in this study with a high degree of network centrality have remained in this condition for over twenty years. This suggests that there is little renewal among authors with a high degree of centrality. Through simulations, it is possible to confront a dense and larger network composed of all authors cited and all authors that have addressed citations. In comparison, when isolating the main agents and their connections within the network through a smaller network, it is shown that the citation of the authors, issued and received, is concentrated in the center of the larger network. Therefore, it is not observed in those citations a long reach within the network in such a manner that suggests an endogenous behavior of relations among authors, in other words, there is the presence of circular citations where many authors cite themselves and cite authors from a small group continuously.

A tese investiga controle gerencial como prática social e organizacional a partir de três paradigmas de pesquisa. Foi realizada etnografia em empresa brasileira, utilizando-se de shadowing, teoria fundamentada, entrevistas, observação, análise retórica, de documentos e visuais. No paradigma neofuncionalista, desenvolve teoria fundamentada construcionista para entender como controles sociotécnicos interagem com socioideológicos. Apesar de possuir tecnologias sociotécnicas, tais como \"custeio baseado em atividades\", \"balanced scorecard\", \"orçamento empresarial\", \"planejamento\", elas não são utilizadas como previsto na literatura gerencialista. Ao invés disso, formas sutis de controles socioideológicos, como retórica, políticas de recrutamento, controles sociais, liderança carismática, combinadas com tecnologia de controle híbrida desenvolvida pela empresa, fazem com que funcionários avaliem, implicitamente, custos e viabilidade econômica de suas ações. Essa tecnologia foi apresentada, inicialmente, como ferramenta de inovação, mas no estudo revelou-se como um controle totalizante, mais rígido do que os existentes na literatura. O papel gerencial da contabilidade é fornecido pela demonstração de resultados societária sintética para análise da participação nos lucros. Desse modo, controles socioideológicos substituem contabilidade gerencial. Desenvolveram-se três categorias conceituais para explicação dos achados: equifinalidade de custos e gestão econômica, tecnologia de controle híbrida e estruturas de consciência econômica. Os paradigmas remanescentes estudam a tecnologia híbrida. No interpretativista, a teoria da prática de Schatzki, investiga como funcionários realizam as práticas, identificando-se aprendizado, arranjos, memórias, regras e direcionamento para a ação. No crítico, o paradigma pós-estruturalista analisa política, história, instituições, poder e conflito, com a teoria pós-estruturalista do discurso de Laclau e Mouffe, baseada em psicanálise lacaniana, linguística, ideologia, estruturalismo, desconstrução, genealogia e teoria crítica. Através da lógica da explicação crítica de Glynos e Howarth, desenvolvem-se três grupos de lógicas. Nas lógicas políticas, identifica-se como a empresa converteu um canal de comunicação na década de 1980, em tecnologia de controle nos anos 2000. Desenvolve-se o conceito de instituições políticas de controle, para relatar o cenário político, macroeconômico, institucional e regulatório do Brasil entre 1980 a 2010. Identificou-se sua relação com controle gerencial e como gestores utilizaram discursos universais como \"qualidade\" e \"inovação\", em ações para legitimar a tecnologia híbrida, tornando-os significantes vazios. Nas lógicas sociais, emergiram as lógicas da coletividade, produtividade criativa, controle descentrado, competição e econômica. Nas lógicas fantasmáticas, as fantasias do consumo, fetiche dos prêmios, modismos gerenciais, do herói, família, cuidados e atenção pelos superiores explicam o porquê da tecnologia ser bem-sucedida. Ao final, realiza-se intertextualidade entre paradigmas. O trabalho acrescenta à literatura internacional lacunas de abordagens institucionais e da prática, como a teorização do sujeito e o relacionamento entre universal e particular, introduzindo novas tipologias e questionando a capacidade destas abordagens de explicar processo. Além disso, adiciona conceitos à literatura e contesta pesquisas anteriores sobre o tema. Contribui com a pesquisa no Brasil, discutindo paradigmas alternativos ao positivismo e funcionalismo, permitindo o desenvolvimento de linhas de pesquisa. Os conceitos e categorias gerados possibilitam generalização teórica a partir da noção de \"semelhanças de família\" de Wittgeinstein. Desenvolvem-se três tipologias para pesquisas. O estudo demonstra a necessidade da academia se engajar em debate crítico sobre modismos gerenciais, teoria da contabilidade gerencial, gerencialismo dos livros-textos e aspectos humanos e sociais da contabilidade. / The thesis investigates management control as social and organizational practice from three paradigms of research. Ethnography in a Brazilian company was carried out by using shadowing, grounded theory, interviews, observation, rhetoric analysis, documents and visual analysis. In the neo-functionalist paradigm develops grounded theory on constructionist in order to understand how socio-technical controls interact with socio-ideological. Despite having socio-technical technologies, such as \"activity-based costing\", \"balanced scorecard\", \"budget\", \"strategic planning\", which are not used as provided in managerial literature. Instead, subtle forms of socio-ideological controls, like rhetoric, recruiting policies, social controls, charismatic leadership, aligned with technology of hybrid control developed by company, enables employees to evaluate implicitly costs and economic feasibility of their actions. This technology was first introduced as an innovation tool; nevertheless, no study has revealed as a totalizing control, more rigid than the ones existing in literature. The management role of accounting is given by corporate statements results summarized for the analysis of participation over profits. Thus, socio-ideological controls replace management accounting. Three conceptual categories were developed to explain the research findings: equifinality of costs and economic management, hybrid control technology and structures of economic consciousness. The remaining paradigms study the hybrid technology. In the interpretivist paradigm, the theory of Schatzki´s practice investigates how employees perform the practices, by identifying the learning, arrangements, memories, rules and guidance for action. In the critical, the post-structuralist paradigm analysis political, historical, institutions, power and conflict with the post-structuralist discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe, based on Lacan´s psychoanalysis, linguistics, structuralism, deconstruction, genealogy and critical theory. Three groups of logics were developed through the logic of Glynos and Howarth critical explanation. In the political logics, it is possible to identify how a company converted a channel of communication in the 1980s into technology of control in the 2000s. The concept of political institutions of control is being developed, as to relate to political, macroeconomics, institutional and regulatory Brazilian scenario between 1980 to 2010. Its relation with management control was identified and, as managers, used universal discourses such as \"quality\" and \"innovation\", in actions to legitimate the hybrid technology, turning them significantly without meaning. In social logics, the logics of collectivity, creative productivity, decentralized control, competition and economic came up. In the fantasmatic logics, consume fantasy, awards fetishes, management fashions, of the hero, family, care and attention by the superiors explain the reason why technology is well-succeed. Summarizing, intertextuality among paradigms is accomplished. The thesis also adds to international literature gaps of institutional and practice approaches, such as theorization of the subject and the relationship between universal and particular, introducing new typologies and questioning the capacity of those process explanation approaches. Besides that, it adds up the concepts to literature and challenges previous studies on the subject. It contributes with the research in Brazil, discussing alternative paradigms to positivism and functionalism, allowing the development of research lines. The concepts and categories generated enable theoretical generalization from the notion of \"family resemblances\" of Wittgeinstein. Three typologies for researches are developed. The study illustrates the need of the academia to engage in a critical debate about management fashions, theory of management accounting, the managerialism of textbooks as well as social and human aspects of the accounting.