Robert W. Scapens

12.7k citations
141 papers · 7.9k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 40
Topics
Accounting and Organizational Management (69 papers)Management and Organizational Studies (26 papers)Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (25 papers)

In The Last Decade

Robert W. Scapens

136 papers receiving 6.8k citations

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Conceptualizing management accounting change: an instit...19852026199820122000198519902505007501000

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Robert W. Scapens
Comparison fields: 5 of 111
  • Management Information Systems 5.3k
  • Accounting 2.8k
  • Strategy and Management 2.1k
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 1.9k
  • Public Administration 1.5k
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All Works

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Institutions, Situated Rationality and Agency in Management Accounting: A Research Note Extending the Burns and Scapens Framework
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Impact of Mobile Platforms on Performance Management: An Imbrication Perspective
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Performance Management in Universities: Effects of the Transition to More Quantitative Measurement
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The management accountant's role
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Trust for Accounting and Accounting for Trust
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Inter-Organisational Cost Management
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Integrating global organizations through performance measurement systems
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Beyond Compliance: why integrated governance matters today
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Handbook of qualitative research methods for international business
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The Challenge of Management Accounting Change: behavioural and cultural aspects of change management
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The challenge of management accounting change: behavioural and cultural aspects of management accounting
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Management Accounting and Strategic Control: implications for management accounting research
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Theories and Case Studies: Limitation or Liberation?
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External reporting and management decisions : a study of their interrelationship in UK companies
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Accounting, Accountability and the ?New? UK Public Sector?, Editorial for a Dedicated Issue on the UK Public Sector
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Management accounting, organizational theory and capital budgeting : three surveys
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About Robert W. Scapens

Robert W. Scapens is a scholar working on Management Information Systems, Public Administration and Accounting, having authored 141 papers that have together received 7.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Accounting and Organizational Management (69 papers), Management and Organizational Studies (26 papers) and Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (25 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Management Information Systems (5.3k citations), Public Administration (1.5k citations) and Accounting (2.8k citations). Robert W. Scapens has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include John Burns, John D. Roberts, Mostafa Jazayeri, Norman B. Macintosh, Henk J. ter Bogt, Cristiano Busco, A.K. Siti‐Nabiha, Michael Bromwich, Bob Ryan and Michael Theobald. Their work appears in journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Accounting Organizations and Society and Industrial Marketing Management.

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