Strategy and innovation: the mediating role of management accountants and management accounting systems’ use

Timur Pasch ()
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Timur Pasch: Utrecht University School of Economics

Journal of Management Control: Zeitschrift für Planung und Unternehmenssteuerung, 2019, vol. 30, issue 2, No 5, 213-246

Abstract: Abstract This study contributes to understanding how firms pursuing differentiation strategy enhance exploratory innovation outcomes through business partner management accountants and their use of management accounting systems. Separate streams of literature analyzed the relationship between strategy and the role of management accountants in firms; and the relationship between the role of management accountants and new product innovation. Drawing on this evidence, I hypothesize that the relationship between differentiation strategy and exploratory innovation is mediated by two factors: a greater business partner orientation of management accountants and their subsequent use of the management accounting systems for attention focusing and decision making purposes. I find empirical support for the proposed three-path mediated effect using a structural equation model with survey data from 244 firms from German-speaking countries. In total, these findings reveal that management accounting department can be part of the strategy implementation mechanism in firms that emphasize exploratory innovation.

Keywords: Differentiation strategy; Exploratory innovation; Management accounting systems; Business partners; Survey; Structural equation modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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