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Paolo Quattrone
Researcher at University of Edinburgh
Publications - 68
Citations - 3552
Paolo Quattrone is an academic researcher from University of Edinburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Management accounting & Integrated reporting. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 64 publications receiving 3094 citations. Previous affiliations of Paolo Quattrone include Canterbury Christ Church University & University of Oxford.
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A 'time' space odyssey': Management control systems in two multinational organisations
Paolo Quattrone,Trevor Hopper +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the effects of ERP on management control in two multinational organizations and find that ERP can create different forms of distance and relations between headquarters and the scattered subsidiaries.
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What does organizational change mean?: Speculations on a taken for granted category
Paolo Quattrone,Trevor Hopper +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that a-centred organizations and a-drift should replace conventional definitions of organizations and change, inspired by the arguments of the sociology of translation and constructivism, and insights from two case studies of Enterprise Resource Planning system implementations in large multinational organizations.
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Accounting for God: accounting and accountability practices in the Society of Jesus (Italy, XVI-XVII centuries)
TL;DR: The development of accounting and accountability practices within the Society of Jesus from the 16th to the 17th centuries cannot be reduced to an economic explanation that views them merely as tools for measuring and allocating economic resources thereby explaining the formation of hierarchies as discussed by the authors.
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Books to be practiced: Memory, the power of the visual, and the success of accounting
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the conditions which allow the emergence of accounting as a performable technique that can spread successfully across economies and societies, drawing on insights offered by studies on the art of memory, Actor-Network Theory, and that broader branch of history known as the history of the book.
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What is IT?. SAP, accounting, and visibility in a multinational organisation
TL;DR: It is argued that IT appears homogeneous for it attracts and generates heterogeneous uses, which enables IT and SAP to travel across organisations, and is labelled ‘heteromogeneous’.