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2018 | 1/2018 (72), t.1 | 195-203

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Legitimacy Theory in Management Accounting Research

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Teoria legitymizacji w badaniach rachunkowości zarządczej

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Teoria legitymacji pomaga zrozumieć zachowanie organizacji w zakresie wdrażania, rozwijania i komunikowania swoich zasad odpowiedzialności społecznej. Głównym założeniem teorii legitymizacji jest realizacja kontraktu społecznego organizacji, która umożliwia uznanie jej celów. To z kolei wymaga przyjęcia strategii CSR wpływającej na różne obszary działalności, w tym w szczególności na rachunkowość zarządczą. Artykuł ukazuje zrównoważoną rachunkowość zarządczą (SMA) jako narzędzie legitymacji dla jednostki odpowiedzialnej społecznie. Artykuł jest sformułowany w następujący sposób: po wprowadzeniu, druga sekcja stanowi tło dla badań – jest to przegląd literatury dotyczący sposobu, w jaki rachunkowość legitymizuje status jednostki społecznie odpowiedzialnej. Trzecia część artykułu przedstawia SMA jako narzędzie legitymizacji w jednostce odpowiedzialnej społecznie. Ostatnia część poświęcona jest prezentacji kierunków rozwoju SMA. Na podstawie podejścia normatywnego przedstawiono propozycję autora, aby traktować zrównoważoną rachunkowość zarządczą jako narzędzie służące zrównoważonej legitymizacji biznesowej.
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Legitimacy theory helps to understand the organization’s behavior in implementing, developing and communicating its social responsibility policies. The main assumption of legitimacy theory is fulfilling the organization’s social contract, which enables the recognition of its objectives. This in turn requires the adoption of a CSR strategy affecting various areas of activity, including in particular management accounting. The paper draws arguments from literature to identify the role of the legitimacy theory in management accounting research. The article’s thesis is that sustainable management accounting is a valuable tool of legitimacy for a socially responsible company. The paper is structured as follows: after the introduction, the second section provides the background for the research study; it is a literature review concerning the way in which accounting legitimizes the status of a socially responsible corporate. The third section of the paper presents sustainable management accounting (SMA) as a tool for legitimacy in a socially responsible company. And the last section is dedicated to the presentation of SMA development directions. On the basis of a normative approach, it presents the author’s proposal of treatment of sustainable management accounting as a tool for sustainable business legitimacy.

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2018

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  • Poznań University of Economics and Business, Faculty of Management

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