Total quality management and changes in management accounting systems in a manufacturing firm: a case study / Sachini Ishanka and Tharusha Gooneratne.

Ishanka, Sachini and Gooneratne, Tharusha (2018) Total quality management and changes in management accounting systems in a manufacturing firm: a case study / Sachini Ishanka and Tharusha Gooneratne. Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal (APMAJ), 13 (1). pp. 45-75. ISSN 2550-1631

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This paper explores the emergence of Total Quality Management (TQM), its continuation as well as the management accounting implications in a leading solid tyre manufacturing firm in Sri Lanka, where TQM has been practiced for over fifteen years. The paper adopts the qualitative methodology and case study approach, while the rational-choice perspective and new institutional sociology have been utilized as the theoretical lens. Our findings suggests that both institutional as well as technical efficiency reasons have influenced the implementation of TQM, and that the management accounting system of the firm has been changed to keep up with the TQM system. How management accounting systems get implicated in a TQM environment, although important has received limited research interest; thus this research is a useful addition to the existing literature. This paper also has theoretical merits; it depicts how coming together of a rational-choice perspective and new institutional sociology provides a better understanding on internal and external reasons for implementing management tools (such as TQM). Using a TQM example, our paper provides learning points to practicing managers on how management accounting systems could be shaped to facilitate implementation of management tools.

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Item Type: Article
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Ishanka, Sachini
sachinishanka@gmail.com
Gooneratne, Tharusha
tharushang@yahoo.com
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management > Total quality management. Benchmarking
Divisions: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam > Accounting Research Institute (ARI)
Journal or Publication Title: Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal (APMAJ)
UiTM Journal Collections: UiTM Journal > Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal (APMAJ)
ISSN: 2550-1631
Volume: 13
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 45-75
Keywords: Total quality management, Management accounting, Rational-choice
Date: April 2018
URI: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29654
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