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Christopher S. Chapman
Researcher at Imperial College London
Publications - 53
Citations - 6330
Christopher S. Chapman is an academic researcher from Imperial College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Management accounting & Management control system. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 52 publications receiving 5947 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher S. Chapman include University of Oxford & University of Bristol.
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Doing Qualitative Field Research in Management Accounting: Positioning Data to Contribute to Theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that theory, method, methodology, and knowledge gains in qualitative field studies are intertwined through the ongoing hypothesis development in the field and emphasise the distinctive role of theory in qualitative research as relating to expression of a subjective reality more than clarification of an objective one.
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Doing qualitative field research in management accounting: Positioning data to contribute to theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that theory, method, methodology, and knowledge gains in qualitative field studies are intertwined through the ongoing hypothesis development in the field and emphasise the distinctive role of theory in qualitative research as relating to expression of a subjective reality more than clarification of an objective one.
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Accounting for Flexibility and Efficiency: A Field Study of Management Control Systems in a Restaurant Chain*
TL;DR: It is suggested that the four design principles of enabling use can facilitate field studies of management control systems, but that they can also be used to define an enabling typology for contingency researchers to analyze the ways in which organizations simultaneously pursue efficiency and flexibility through their management control system.
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Reflections on a contingent view of accounting
TL;DR: The authors argue that the literature has not yet developed a credible and comprehensive contingency theory of accounting, and that a major problem facing the development of an overall framework is the distinctive research characterization which has developed around such efforts.
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Management Accounting as Practice
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline a practice theory approach to considering the role of management accounting in the constitution of organizations by tracing the skilful practices through which social actors in a restaurant chain understand and mobilise accounting to contribute in specific ways to what they regard as the objectives of their organizational units.