This study investigates whether the supraorganizational accountability requests that healthcare organizations faced during and after the Covid-19 pandemic reduced or exacerbated the limited contribution of accounting information systems (AISs) to the clinical decision-making. A case study of an Italian university hospital was conducted through semi-structured interviews with clinicians and management accountants (MAs). The study seeks to investigate whether the organization responded to the accountability requests by aligning its AISs accordingly, or if it instead opted to modify the AISs to address clinicians’ decision-making needs. Both during and after Covid-19, the strengthening of supraorganizational requests affected the features of AISs, to the detriment of clinicians’ information needs, which remained largely unsatisfied. The study adopts institutional theory lenses and provides insights from clinicians and MAs on how the design of AISs to accommodate supraorganizational requests and related coercive isomorphic pressures limits decision-making at the clinical unit level.

Questo studio indaga se le richieste di accountability sovraorganizzativa affrontate dalle aziende sanitarie durante e dopo il Covid-19 abbiano ridotto o esacerbato il limitato contributo dei sistemi informativi contabili (SIC) ai processi decisionali dei clinici. È stato condotto un caso studio presso un ospedale universitario italiano attraverso interviste semi-strutturate a clinici e controller per indagare il ruolo svolto dalle richieste di accountability ricevute sui SIC, i bisogni informativi dei clinici e il ruolo dei SIC nei processi decisionali dei clinici. Sia durante che dopo il Covid-19, il rafforzamento delle richieste sovraorganizzative ha influenzato le caratteristiche dei SIC, a svantaggio dei bisogni informativi dei clinici, che sono rimasti piuttosto insoddisfatti. Lo studio adotta le lenti della teoria istituzionale e fornisce approfondimenti da parte di clinici e controller su come la progettazione dei SIC nel soddisfare le richieste sovraorganizzative e le pressioni isomorfe coercitive correlate abbiano limitato il contributo dei SIC alle decisioni a livello di unità operativa.

Navigating accounting and accountability amidst Covid-19: Insights from clinicians and management accountants [Processi di controllo e accountability ai tempi del Covid-19: clinici e controller a confronto]

Cavicchi C
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Oppi C
Secondo
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Vagnoni E
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2024

Abstract

This study investigates whether the supraorganizational accountability requests that healthcare organizations faced during and after the Covid-19 pandemic reduced or exacerbated the limited contribution of accounting information systems (AISs) to the clinical decision-making. A case study of an Italian university hospital was conducted through semi-structured interviews with clinicians and management accountants (MAs). The study seeks to investigate whether the organization responded to the accountability requests by aligning its AISs accordingly, or if it instead opted to modify the AISs to address clinicians’ decision-making needs. Both during and after Covid-19, the strengthening of supraorganizational requests affected the features of AISs, to the detriment of clinicians’ information needs, which remained largely unsatisfied. The study adopts institutional theory lenses and provides insights from clinicians and MAs on how the design of AISs to accommodate supraorganizational requests and related coercive isomorphic pressures limits decision-making at the clinical unit level.
2024
Cavicchi, C; Oppi, C; Vagnoni, E
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