<p><strong><font size="3">Handbooks of Management Accounting Research, <font color="#ff0000">Volume 2</font></font></strong></p><p>by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/103-7459369-9698241?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Christopher%20S.%20Chapman"><font color="#003399">Christopher S. Chapman</font></a> (Editor), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/103-7459369-9698241?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Anthony%20G.%20Hopwood"><font color="#003399">Anthony G. Hopwood</font></a> (Editor), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/103-7459369-9698241?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Michael%20D.%20Shields"><font color="#003399">Michael D. Shields</font></a> (Editor)</p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0080453406/sr=1-2/qid=1194345937/ref=dp_image_0/103-7459369-9698241?ie=UTF8&amp;n=283155&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1194345937&amp;sr=1-2" target="AmazonHelp"><img id="prodImage" height="240" alt="Handbooks of Management Accounting Research, Two-Volume Set, Volume 1-2 (Handbooks of Management Accounting Research)" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418UIjf888L._AA240_.jpg" width="240" border="0"/></a></p><li><b>Hardcover:</b> 742 pages </li><li><b>Publisher:</b> Elsevier Science; 1 edition (February 7, 2007) </li><li><b>Language:</b> English </li><li><div class="content"><b>Review</b><br/>The Handbooks of Management Accounting Research represent an ambitious and important project to pull together the main streams of modern research in this vitally important area. Anyone who is interested in using management accounting theory to understand or improve practice should study these handbooks carefully.<br/><i>Professor Roberts Simons, Harvard Business School, USA.</i>
<br/><br/><b>Book Description</b><br/>Volume two of the <i>Handbooks of Management Accounting Research</i> consists of two groups of chapters. The first draw together research that has focussed on particular management accounting practices. The second set synthesise contributions to the literature that have been focussed within particular organisational contexts. Volume two concludes with a review of research on how management accounting practice and research varies around the world. <br/><br/>Special pricing available if purchased as a set with Volume 1.<br/><br/>*Documents the scholarly management accounting literature<br/>*Publishing both in print, and online through Science Direct<br/>*International in scope </div></li><li> </li><li><font size="4"><strong>Contents</strong></font><br/>Contributors to Volume 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix<br/><strong>Preface</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi<br/>MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING PRACTICES<br/><strong>1. Managing Costs and Cost Structure throughout the Value Chain: Research on<br/>Strategic Cost Management</strong><br/>Shannon W. Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481<br/><strong>2. Target Costing: Uncharted Research Territory</strong><br/>Shahid Ansari, Jan Bell and Hiroshi Okano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507<br/><strong>3. Cost and Profit Driver Research</strong><br/>Rajiv D. Banker and Holly Hanson Johnston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531<br/><strong>4. Analytical Modeling of Cost in Management Accounting Research</strong><br/>John Christensen and Thomas Hemmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557<br/><strong>5. Transfer Pricing: The Implications of Fiscal Compliance</strong><br/>Martine Cools and Clive Emmanuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573<br/><strong>6. Budgeting Research: Three Theoretical Perspectives and Criteria for Selective<br/>Integration</strong><br/>Mark Covaleski, John H. Evans III, Joan Luft and Michael D. Shields. . . . . 587<br/><strong>7. Management Control of the Complex Organization: Relationships between<br/>Management Accounting and Information Technology</strong><br/>Niels Dechow, Markus Granlund and Jan Mouritsen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625<br/><strong>8. A Review of Activity-Based Costing: Technique, Implementation, and<br/>Consequences</strong><br/>Maurice Gosselin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641<br/><strong>9. An Economic Perspective on Transfer Pricing</strong><br/>Robert F. Go¨ x and Ulf Schiller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673<br/><strong>10. A Review of the Literature on Capital Budgeting and Investment Appraisal: Past,</strong><br/>Present, and Future Musings<br/>Susan F. Haka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697<br/><strong>11. Management Accounting and Operations Management: Understanding the<br/>Challenges from Integrated Manufacturing</strong><br/>Allan Hansen and Jan Mouritsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729<br/><strong>12. A Review of Quantitative Research in Management Control Systems and<br/>Strategy</strong><br/>Kim Langfield-Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753<br/><strong>13. A Review of the Literature on Control and Accountability</strong><br/>Kenneth A. Merchant and David T. Otley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785<br/>MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING PRACTICE CONTENTS<br/><strong>14. Accounting and Control in Health Care: Behavioural, Organisational, Sociological<br/>and Critical Perspectives</strong><br/>Margaret A. Abernethy, Wai Fong Chua, Jennifer Grafton and<br/>Habib Mahama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805<br/><strong>15. Management Accounting in the Manufacturing Sector: Managing Costs at the<br/>Design and Production Stages</strong><br/>Tony Davila and Marc Wouters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831<br/><strong>16. Management Accounting and Control in Health Care: An Economics<br/>Perspective</strong><br/>Leslie Eldenburg and Ranjani Krishnan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859<br/><strong>17. Accounting in an Interorganizational Setting</strong><br/>Ha˚kan Ha˚ kansson and Johnny Lind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885<br/>MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING AROUND THE WORLD<br/><strong>18. The History of Management Accounting in France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain<br/>Salvador Carmona .</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905<br/><strong>19. Management Accounting Practices in the People’s Republic of China<br/>Chee W. Chow, Rong-Ruey Duh and Jason Zezhong Xiao</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923<br/><strong>20. The Development of Cost and Management Accounting in Britain</strong><br/>Trevor Boyns and John Richard Edwards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969<br/><strong>21. Management Accounting Theory and Practice in German-Speaking Countries<br/>Ralf Ewert and Alfred Wagenhofer</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035<br/><strong>22. The History of Management Accounting in the U.S.</strong><br/>Richard Fleischman and Thomas Tyson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071<br/><strong>23. Development of Cost and Management Accounting Ideas in the Nordic Countries<br/></strong>Salme Na¨ si and Carsten Rohde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091<br/><strong>24. A History of Japanese Management Accounting</strong><br/>Hiroshi Okano and Tomo Suzuki. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119<br/><strong>Author Index for Volumes 1 and 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139<br/>Subject Index for Volumes 1 and 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1185</strong></li>