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For the Academics there is a difference between the teaching of management control and the practice of controllers. Why … this distinction ? This paper shows that management control is a management performance process. The management control … process is build for the managers. Controllers are essentially in charge of financial dimensions. But performance is not only …
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shareholders, and run counter to the thesis of convergence to the Anglo-American standard of unitary board structure. …
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dual boards. Our results imply that freedom of contract about board structure is valuable for shareholders. …
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We examine board structure in France, which since 1966 has allowed firms freedom to choose between unitary and two-tier boards. We analyze how this choice relates to characteristics of the firm and its environment. Firms with severe asymmetric information tend to opt for unitary boards; firms...
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performances of responsibility centres at a distance. Are those management control systems always those wanted by managers ? Can a …This article investigates the way management control mechanisms allow a General Management to supervise the … pointed out that the management control processes and systems are neither totally deliberate nor emerging. Controlling …
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This paper contributes to research on organizational slack. The slacks integrated into capital expenditure have been little studied. The economic crisis in 2008-2009 represents a good opportunity to analyze these slacks. A longitudinal case study has been carried out in an industrial company...
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