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Thriving on Chaos: The Route to Management Survival

Vinten, Gerald - In: Management Decision 30 (1992) 8

Chaos theory is about to invade the thinking and vocabulary of practising managers and management academics. It will mark the major breakthrough in the 1990s, just as systems theory represented the great step forward three decades ago. Indeed, it may be regarded as a natural extension of systems...

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Reporting for strategic control

Flitman, Andrew - In: Management Decision 34 (1996) 3, pp. 62-71

A common complaint about strategic plans is that, once developed, they tend to be largely forgotten until the next planning cycle. At that time a review is made of the progress to strategic goals. What is needed, however, is a reporting tool that actively tracks progress towards the strategic...

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Analytical procedures: management tools for monitoring controls

Lee, Minwoo; Colbert, Janet L. - In: Management Decision 35 (1997) 5, pp. 392-397

and operation of internal control; as part of its responsibilities for controlling, management monitors the system of …

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The influence of strategic control and operational control on new venture performance

Lin, Ya-Hui; Chen, Chung-Jen; Lin, Bou-Wen - In: Management Decision 55 (2017) 5, pp. 1042-1064

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of strategic control and operational control on new venture performance in the China context. Design/methodology/approach This study tests the hypotheses in a sample of 83 new ventures that have equity investment by established...

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User liaisons’ perspective on behavior and outcome control in IT projects : Role of IT experience, behavior observability, and outcome measurability

Liu, Shan; Wang, Lin - In: Management Decision 52 (2014) 6, pp. 1148-1173

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which user liaison behavior and outcome control influence the process performance of information technology (IT) projects and how the IT experience, behavior observability, and outcome measurability of user liaisons affect...

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Towards a stoic interpretation of controllability

Pesqueux, Yvon - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 1, pp. 5-12

Ethics – both within philosophy and in the new disciplines of “applied ethics” and “business ethics” – is a vogue subject these days and, as such, calls for a few cautionary words. The resurgence of ethics has engendered two main schools of criticism: one which sees it as a passing...

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Process Cost Accounting – Methodology

Galway, Albert - In: Management Decision 29 (1991) 7

The methodology of process cost accounting is set out in a step‐by‐step format. This is a technique used when …

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Creating value: economics and accounting ‐ perspectives for managers

Groth, John C.; Byers, Steven S. - In: Management Decision 34 (1996) 10, pp. 56-64

Focuses on understanding accounting and economic concepts, relationships and factors important as a basis for economic … review and develops perspectives useful to those with or without knowledge of accounting. Distinguishes between accounting …

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No such thing as … the language of business: colourless green ideas sleep furiously

Rowe, Jim - In: Management Decision 36 (1998) 2, pp. 117-122

It is often said, in business and business schools, that accounting is the language of business. This paper attempts to … deconstruct this nostrum by demonstrating the possibility of a language of business existing and why accounting is not it. The … paper will briefly discuss the technical ability of accounting to behave as a communication medium and finally suggest that …

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No such thing as … the “language” of business II

Williams, Russell - In: Management Decision 36 (1998) 3, pp. 198-203

A nostrum of business is that accounting can be read as the language of business. However, for very good reasons the …

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