This book is mainly about facilitating the dissemination of management control, a field now finding application at a growing number of organizations, among commercial practitioners. It provides essential insights on management control as applied to Chinese enterprises and cross-border...

The second edition of this textbook comprehensively discusses global supply-chain and operations management, combining value creation networks and interacting processes. It focuses on the operational roles in the networks and presents the quantitative and organizational methods needed to plan...

This textbook presents global supply chain and operations management from a comprehensive perspective, combining value creation networks and interacting processes. It focuses on the operational roles in the networks and presents the quantitative and organizational methods needed to plan and...

This book serves as a guide to strategic management accounting. It introduces new and useful concepts on how to collect, analyse, and evaluate options to enable managers to steer corporate directions and write strategic plans for the long-term success of the corporation. Starting with basic...

This book responds to key issues in strategic management control beyond the numbers. Grounded in research but written with practitioners and students in mind, this second volume addresses the most up-to-date management control issues in the public sector, forecasting, budgeting and controls in...

This article aimed to analyse the influence of the main factors on management control used in optimization activities, in order to reach the strategic goals of a company. Agency, transactional costs and contingency theories have been analysed from the traditional perspective. This study reviewed...

1 Introduction to the cases: Theories, concepts and models -- 2 Driving Strategic change at Saab AB: The use of new control practices -- 3 How management control affects the implementation of strategies in a decentralized organization: Focus on formal and informal control in the case of Atlas...

This book is about competitive advantage and how it is created at the company level. It is based on the premise that the alignment of strategies and control systems affects the firm's chances of successfully positioning itself in its chosen arena of competition

Not only have the global financial crisis, a changing regulatory environment, increasing competitive pressure, and changes in customer behavior created an overall difficult environment for banking institutions, but they have also increased the pressure on their sales performance. Based on the...