Author: Michal MatějkaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789056681050
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Management Accounting in Organizational Design: Three Essays
Author: Michal MatějkaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789056681050
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Three Essays in Management Accounting
Author: Benjamin StakeEssays on the Design of the Management Accounting System: Determinants, Components and Effects
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789491870323
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Management accounting systems play a key role in translating an organization’s strategy into desired behaviors and results. An appropriate design of a management accounting system is essential in achieving that aim. The purpose of this dissertation is to better understand the determinants and the consequences of management accounting systems’ design choices. Four empirical studies were conducted. In study one we analyze how CFO characteristics explain the use of strategic management accounting practices over and above commonly known contingency factors. The main finding is that the impact of a CFO on the firm’s use of strategic management accounting practices depends on both, his or her organizational power and personal background. In study two I continue the investigation of human factors in regard to management accounting systems’ design and analyze how the relationship between differentiation strategy and innovativeness is sequentially mediated by the business partner role of management accountants and their use of management accounting systems. I find that business partner management accountants use management accounting systems in a more interactive way compared to bean counter management accountants and the interactive way of use is positively related to innovativeness. In study three we examine how firms build dynamic capabilities in marketing and accounting; and how the decision to build a portfolio of both capabilities changes with competition. The analysis reveals that the marketing and management accounting dynamic capabilities are complements in high competition environments but are not related in low competition environments. Finally, in study four I investigate how firms implement strategic management accounting practices across their life cycle and what the performance consequences of this implementation are. Two findings are central. First, the strategic management accounting practices’ adoption rates increase between the birth and revival stages and decrease at the decline stage. Second, firms that adopt strategic management accounting practices to a less intensive degree compared to the benchmark experience performance losses, while firms that adopt these practices to a higher degree do not.
Management Accounting, Organizational Theory and Capital Budgeting: 3Surveys
Author: Robert W ScapensPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349070963
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Handbook of Management Accounting Research
Author: Christopher S. ChapmanPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080467563
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
Volume two of the Handbooks of Management Accounting Research consists of two groups of chapters. The first draw together research that has focussed on particular management accounting practices. The second set synthesise contributions to the literature that have been focussed within particular organisational contexts. Volume two concludes with a review of research on how management accounting practice and research varies around the world. Special pricing available if purchased as a set with Volume 1. - Documents the scholarly management accounting literature - Publishing both in print, and online through Science Direct - International in scope
The Horizontal Organization
Author: Frank OstroffPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199728062
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The vertical/functional hierarchy has been the mainstay of business since the industrial revolution. But it has its problems. In fact, the vertical design all but guarantees fragmented tasks, overspecialization, fiefdoms, turf wars, the urge to control from the top--all the negatives that foster organizational paralysis. In The Horizontal Organization, Frank Ostroff provides executives with the first truly viable alternative to the age-old vertical alignment. Indeed, he offers nothing less than the first full view of what the organization of the future looks like and how it works. The concept of horizontal organization has been hailed in Fortune as "a model corporation for the next fifty years" and in a Business Week cover story as "the real thing." But until now, management books have offered only piecemeal accounts of what the organization of the future might look like. Ostroff, a key developer of the concept of the horizontal organization, offers the first workable road map. He describes what the horizontal organization is, what it looks like, why it is important, how it helps improve performance, where it is appropriate, and how to develop it. The book contains real case examples that show how major international corporations (and one federal agency) have used Ostroff's concepts to meet their competitive goals. For instance, we see how Ford Motor Company's Customer Service Division turned to the horizontal organization to meet a highly ambitious goal--to get the customer's car fixed right, on time, the first time, at a competitive price, in convenient locations. We see how a horizontal design radically improved the performance of OSHA (the federal agency that oversees occupational safety), transforming it from a bureaucratic enforcer of regulations to a proactive problem-solver in a concerted effort to improve working conditions and save lives. And we see how Xerox combined both vertical and horizontal designs successfully, a case that underscores when a firm can best use the horizontal organization to achieve their goals. Ostroff also looks at a General Electric plant in North Carolina, Motorola's Space and Systems Technology Group, and the home finance division of Barclays Bank, highlighting how these major corporations have also used the horizontal organization to radically improve productivity. Many successful business books, such as Reengineering the Corporation and Beyond Reengineering, have given managers only a piece of the puzzle. Ostroff gives us the complete picture. The Horizontal Organization offers the first usable roadmap to the twenty-first-century firm. It is a book everyone who desires to radically improve the performance of their organization will want to read.
Essays on Purchasing and Supply Management
Author: Daniel KernPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3834962279
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Daniel Kern provides an answer on how to implement the theoretical concepts into day-to-day business of multinational corporations through the empirical validation of SCM models and in-depth casestudies. The four essays cover research on inter-firm collaboration, supply risk management, purchasing competences and research on measuring and benchmarking SCM efforts.
Defining Management
Author: Lars EngwallPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317917146
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Defining Management charts the expansion of management as an idea and practice from a time when it was limited to churches and households to its current ubiquity, focusing in particular on the role of business schools, consultants, and business media in this process. How did an entire industry develop around business schools, consultants, and business media who are now widely considered the authorities regarding best management practice? This book shows how these actors – on their own and in interaction – became taken-for-granted and gained such definitional power over management and managers, expanded across the globe from often modest and not always respected origins, and impacted, and continue to impact businesses and, increasingly, the broader economic and social context. Building on extant and some new research, the book is unique in bringing together issues and actors that have been examined elsewhere separately. Any student or professional of management interested in the evolution of their field or the rise of business schools, consultants and business media will find this book both novel and thought-provoking.
Review of Management Accounting Research
Author: Magdy G. Abdel-KaderPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230353274
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
A comprehensive review of contemporary research in management accounting. Provides a thorough critical analysis of recent issues published in the management accounting literature and identifies gaps for future research in each issue reviewed.
Strategizing Management Accounting
Author: Chandana AlawattagePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317667034
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The theory and practice of management accounting should be seen within the context of varieties of global capitalism, to appreciate its role as a 'calculative technology of capitalism' which is practiced on factory floors, corporate boards, computer networks, spreadsheets, and so forth. This new textbook is the first to introduce the field from a rounded social science perspective. Strategizing Management Accounting offers a theoretical discussion on management accounting’s strategic orientation by accommodating two interrelated lines of analyses, from historical and contemporary perspectives. The book illustrates how 'new management accounting' has evolved into the form in which it exists today in its neoliberal context and how those new management accounting practices have become manifestos for the managers, as calculative technologies of decision making, performance management, control, corporate governance, as well as global governance, and development within various forms of organizations across the globe. Each chapter draws on Foucauldian analysis of biopolitics explaining how neoliberal market logic informs a set of strategies and mechanisms through which various social entities and discourses are made governable by considering them as biopolitical entities of global governance. Written by two recognized accounting experts, this book is vital reading for all students of management accounting and will also be a useful supplementary resource for those wanting to understand and research accounting's vital role in contemporary society.