TY - JOUR

T1 - Risk management with management control systems

T2 - A pragmatic constructivist perspective

AU - Lueg, Rainer

AU - Knapik, Magdalena

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - This paper addresses the issue that calculative practices build on socially constructed facts that have both subjective and objective components. Using risk management as an example, we take a pragmatic-constructivist stance to explore how such a tool might be integrated in actor-based Management Control Systems. We propose a conceptual framework and a research agenda that accounts for actorship (L. Nørreklit, 2013) beyond numerical facts. This paper is conceptual and draws on secondary literature. Our framework highlights the non-linear, iterative nature of integrating calculative practices that specifically require complex reflection concerning the [1] validation if possibilities are factual (combining subjective and numerical data), [2] the elimination of illusions and sur-realities through constructive conflict/dialectical management, and [3] the co-construction of organization-wide topoi (causality and pertinent accounting practices). Our research furthers practice research on calculative practices through the development of a prescriptive rather than descriptive framework. It also offers propositions that future case study researchers can use.

AB - This paper addresses the issue that calculative practices build on socially constructed facts that have both subjective and objective components. Using risk management as an example, we take a pragmatic-constructivist stance to explore how such a tool might be integrated in actor-based Management Control Systems. We propose a conceptual framework and a research agenda that accounts for actorship (L. Nørreklit, 2013) beyond numerical facts. This paper is conceptual and draws on secondary literature. Our framework highlights the non-linear, iterative nature of integrating calculative practices that specifically require complex reflection concerning the [1] validation if possibilities are factual (combining subjective and numerical data), [2] the elimination of illusions and sur-realities through constructive conflict/dialectical management, and [3] the co-construction of organization-wide topoi (causality and pertinent accounting practices). Our research furthers practice research on calculative practices through the development of a prescriptive rather than descriptive framework. It also offers propositions that future case study researchers can use.

KW - Calculative practice

KW - Management control systems

KW - Practice theory

KW - Pragmatic constructivism

KW - Risk management

KW - Management studies

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84986903202&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.22495/cocv13i3p6

DO - 10.22495/cocv13i3p6

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:84986903202

VL - 13

SP - 72

EP - 81

JO - Corporate Ownership & Control

JF - Corporate Ownership & Control

SN - 1727-9232

IS - 3

ER -