Professor Ingrid Jeacle edits Special Issue in Management Accounting Research Journal

Professor Ingrid Jeacle, CAS’ Co-director, and responsible for managing the Accounting and Popular Culture Research Network (APCRN), has guest-edited a Special Issue in the Management Accounting Research (MAR) Journal.

The APCRN came together for a workshop on the theme of Managing Popular Culture (associated with the journal MAR) which was held at the University of Edinburgh Business School in April 2015. The special issue journal is a result of this workshop and was released as Volume 35 in June 2017.

Topics covered include:

• Managing popular culture: Ingrid Jeacle
• When being a partner means more: The external role of football club management accountants: Floriane Janin
• Management control in pulsating organisations – A multiple case study of popular culture events: Martin Carlsson-Wall, Kalle Kraus and Louise Karlsson
• Beauty or not beauty: Making up the producer of popular culture: Claire Dambrin and Caroline Lambert
• The relevance of strategic management accounting to popular culture: The world of West End Musicals: Irvine Lapsley and Josephine V. Rekers
• Judgement devices and the evaluation of singularities: The use of performance ratings and narrative information to guide film viewer choice: Michael Bialecki, Susan O’Leary and David Smith
• Bringing Back Charlie Chaplin: Accounting as a Catalyst in the Creation of an Authentic Product of Popular Culture: Anette Mikes and Felicitas Morhart
• The budget in the aesthetic: The role of calculative practice in the production of popular culture: Esther R. Maier
• The popular pursuit of DIY: Exploring the role of calculative technologies in an actor network: Ingrid Jeacle

The objective of the APCRN is to promote and showcase research on the inter-linkages between accounting and popular culture.

• Managing Popular Culture Workshop
• Find out about the APCRN
• View the special issue on Science Direct