Maria Major

Maria Joao Major holds a Post-doc in Management Accounting and Control from the Manchester Business School, UK and a PhD in Management Accounting from the University of Manchester, UK. She is currently an associate professor of Management Accounting in a top Portuguese Business School (ISCTE Business School) and a visiting professor at Nova School of Business & Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in Portugal. Her research interests lie in management change in both private and public organizations, particularly in hospitals. Professor Major has published in top academic journals including ‘Management Accounting Research’, ‘The European Accounting Review’, ‘Accounting, Organizations and Society’ and ‘Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal’, among others. She is in the editorial board of ‘Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management’, ‘Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change’ and before in the editorial board of ‘The European Accounting Review. Professor Major is additionally active in refereeing articles for a number of leading academic journals. Currently she is conducting a research project on management control in the healthcare sector together with colleagues in the UK.

Publications

Standardization of Financial Reporting and Accounting in Latin American Countries
Standardization of Financial Reporting and Accounting in Latin American Countries
Isabel Lourenço, Maria Major. © 2015. 352 pages.
Accounting has often been described as the language of business. As the increasing competition of overseas markets begins to affect even the smallest local companies, many more...
New Public Management Reforms in the Portuguese NHS: The Role of Traditional and Activity-Based Costing Systems in these Reforms
New Public Management Reforms in the Portuguese NHS: The Role of Traditional and Activity-Based Costing Systems in these Reforms
Célia Picoito, Maria João Major. © 2013. 16 pages.
New Public Management (NPM) is a global paradigm that affects all public sectors, health included. Following the course of NPM reforms, Portuguese hospitals adopted a more...
Activity-Based Costing in the Portuguese Telecommunications Industry
Activity-Based Costing in the Portuguese Telecommunications Industry
Maria Major, Trevor Hopper. © 2010. 15 pages.
This chapter examines an implementation of an Activity-based Costing (ABC) system in a Portuguese telecommunications firm called Marconi. It is argued that they changed its...
Activity-Based Costing in the Portuguese Telecommunications Industry
Activity-Based Costing in the Portuguese Telecommunications Industry
Maria Major, Trevor Hopper. © 2009. 14 pages.
This chapter examines an implementation of an Activity-based Costing (ABC) system in a Portuguese telecommunications firm called Marconi. It is argued that they changed its...