Extending influence and accounting use—developing the Frameworks to incorporate Galician legal matters about the proposed healthcare changes with managers and organizations for empirical study

Abstract

The previous paper provided the general approach to Frameworks of research and research methods to study accounting changes in Galician healthcare [Purdy DE, Gago S. Towards a framework to study influence and accounting use. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2003;14:663–78]. Consideration of the Galician legal and institutional materials provided the details and indicated the need for further analysis. This paper analyses Galician materials and the Spanish notion of retos, considers autonomy in the context of influence and changing information provision. Consequently, the Information–Influence Matrix is revised as are those anticipated for a Financial Manager and a Health Centre Manager. Further Frameworks now consider the organization and institution effects. Work elsewhere has indicated that the promotion of more involvement by employees and the provision of more information to employees has been accompanied by strong narratives favouring such changes. Generally such change has been more favourable for managers than non-management employees.