The ability of a company to deal with uncertainty and turbulence is an issue which has attracted increasing attention in recent years, due to the negative effects of the financial crisis. In this context, the paper has the aim of exploring whether the consideration of risk in a budgeting process...

This is a study of Management Control Systems (MCS) in the Italian public sector in the context of a significant change that is shifting these organisations from a bureaucratic toward a performance-oriented model. The paper aims to present a theoretical framework for developing an overall...