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The Role of Management Accounting Systems in Strategic Sensemaking

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This study aims to explore the role of management accounting systems in strategic sensemaking. In particular the study tries to improve understanding regarding how managers use management accounting systems for sensemaking and how management accounting system dimensions shape the role and use of management accounting system in strategic sensemaking. Due to the explorative nature of the research questions, and the objective of studying strategic sensemaking in its natural setting, the empirical approach is based on a multiple-case study design.

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(2008). Research Design. In: The Role of Management Accounting Systems in Strategic Sensemaking. Gabler. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-9633-6_4

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