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Management Control and Uncertainty
2014Management control is about the process of steering organizations through the environments in which they operate, to achieve both short-term and longer-term goals. These goals will differ from organization to organization because their stakeholders are different and the compromises between different stakeholder demands will be resolved in different ...
David Otley, Kim Soin
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Controlling and Managing Organizations
1987Anyone who is managing others must in some sense feel that the situation is under control; it is how this state of affairs is achieved which is at the crux of managerial success. To control is to ‘dominate, command; hold in check…’ (Fowler and Fowler, 1964).
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Process management and control
1986Once the problem of hardware for process control had been solved the next move, in the 1970s, was to provide monitoring and simple control systems. Inevitably, things have advanced since then and one definite trend is towards the integrated automation of specific processes.
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Management Control Systems and Creativity
2016This chapter argues that designing management control systems to enhance creativity requires a fundamental shift in how these systems are conceptualized, namely, as enablers of creativity. Concepts such as diagnostic and interactive, enabling and coercive, and inspirational and directional provide a head start in this respect.
Davila, Antonio, DITILLO, ANGELO
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Sustainability Management Control
2011Sustainability issues create business opportunities and threats. Based on a discussion of drivers to create a business case for sustainability, this chapter argues for a more systematic approach to management than current approaches that in practice involve working with checklists. Given the core logic behind the sustainability balanced scorecard (SBSC)
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Performance Management and Control
2016This book introduces the tools and systems of management control used in organisations today. The focus is on how managers implement and use management control systems (MCS).It is structured in three parts, addressing different perspectives:1. Which organisational structure should we choose, and for which type of management control?
Löning, Hélène +3 more
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Organizations, Management, and Control
Contemporary Sociology, 1981John Storey +2 more
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