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Mapping data-driven management in accounting: the premise and promise of the debate and how to move beyond

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  • Martin Kornberger
  • Clarissa Ruth Marie Schott
  • Dan-Richard Knudsen
  • Christian Andvik

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Purpose - This paper aims to point to the shift in the temporal orientation, going from reporting on the past to creating insights about the future, which might be suggestive of perennial managerial attempts to push the boundaries of bounded rationality. Design/methodology/approach - In this essay, the authors want to critically engage with the concept of “data-driven management” in the context of digitalization. To do so, they sketch the edges of current discourses around the emerging idea of data-driven management and its relationship with the inner workings of organizations from an accounting perspective. They question the often-times supposed objectivity and increased rationality of the concept and instead introduce the idea of becoming “data-curious” (before being data-driven). Findings - The authors observe that this push also seems to be accompanied by trends of individualized decision-making and prevailing hopes of technology to solve organizational problems. They therefore suggest that it is valuable for current debates to take a moment to give attention, in practice and in research, to the role of temporality, benefits of collective decision-making and changes in professions (of accountants). Originality/value - The aim of this paper is to spark curiosity and engagement with the phenomenon of data-driven management by outlining a novel set of potential future pathways of research and point towards methods that might help studying the questions arising for a data-curious approach.

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  • Martin Kornberger & Clarissa Ruth Marie Schott & Dan-Richard Knudsen & Christian Andvik, 2024. "Mapping data-driven management in accounting: the premise and promise of the debate and how to move beyond," Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 22(2), pages 186-198, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:eme:qrampp:qram-08-2024-0172
    DOI: 10.1108/QRAM-08-2024-0172
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