Browsing College of Business, Public Policy and Law by Author "Sweeney, Breda"
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Audit quality threatening behaviours: perceptions of auditees
Sweeney, Breda; Pierce, B. (Irish Accounting and Finance Association, 2015)Previous research has found that audit staff engage in audit quality threatening behaviours (QTB). Auditee personnel interact with audit staff during fieldwork, and their perceptions of QTB are reported in this paper. ... -
Management control practices and pragmatism
Curtis, Emer; Sweeney, Breda (Emerald, 2023-06-28)Purpose Pragmatism is very relevant to workplace management and performance measurement, yet in the accounting literature, it is a term used loosely and in a colloquial manner. By drawing on a framework based on classical ... -
Managing different types of innovation: Mutual reinforcing management control systems and the generation of dynamic tension
Curtis, Emer; Sweeney, Breda (Taylor & Francis, 2016-11-17)Using a single case study of a highly innovative medical device company engaged in two types of innovation (technological and customer-oriented), this paper examines the nature of the relationship between mutually reinforcing ... -
Performance measurement systems as generators of cognitive conflict in ambidextrous firms
Bedford, David S.; Bisbe, Josep; Sweeney, Breda (Elsevier, 2018-06-21)This study explores the decision-facilitating role of performance measurement systems (PMSs) in firms attempting to translate competence ambidexterity (i.e., the simultaneous pursuit of exploration and exploitation) into ... -
Simons' levers of control framework: Commensuration within and of the framework
Curtis, Emer; Lillis, Anne M.; Sweeney, Breda (2017)Abstract Purpose Despite extensive adoption of Simons’ Levers of Control (LoC) framework, there is still considerable diversity in its operationalization which impedes the coherent development of the literature and ...