Management Accounting Research: 25 years on

abstarct This Editorial introduces and comments on the implications of the papers presented at the 25th Anniversary Conference of Management Accounting Research which was held at the London School of Economics and Political Science in April 2015. It first examines the context in which Management Accounting Research was founded in 1990 and then introduces the six invited review papers. These papers cover a wide range of subjects comprising critical and social theory, managerialist studies, contingency theory, experimental behavioural research and intraorganisational management accounting. Amongst various other recommendations, some of the authors suggest that there is a need for research in management accounting tomore effectively build on prior research so as to accumulate knowledge about specific issues and problems. In addition, they suggest that researchers in the different areas (or sub-disciplines) of management accounting should talk to each other more. For instance, insights ...