Search for: [Abstrakt = "This paper is a brief metatheoretical study of the management accounting thought. The purpose of this paper is to present management accounting as a multi\-paradigm discipline of social science. The term \"paradigm\" is defined and briefly analyzed. The framework of Burrell and Morgan \[1979\] concerning paradigms in social science is described. Various approaches to the management accounting paradigms \(in a broad and narrow senses\) are presented and discussed."]