Zur effizienten Steuerung des Unternehmens ist die Unternehmensführung auf wahrheitsgemäße Informationen ihrer Manager angewiesen. Anders als in der klassischen Prinzipal-Agenten-Theorie, in der Manager rein eigennutzorientierte Individuen darstellen, hat die verhaltenswissenschaftliche...

Der Beitrag beschreibt die Konzeption von BI als integrierten Gesamtansatz, veranschaulicht das Potenzial für eine innovative Nutzung von Informationen zur Erreichung von Wettbewerbsvorteilen und gibt einen Überblick über ausgewählte zukünftige Entwicklungen und Trends.

Recent evidence suggests that managers establish a positive link between management accounting system (MAS) integration and controllership effectiveness, which is fully mediated by the perceived consistency of financial language. Our paper extends this research by analyzing whether controllers...

With globalisation, there has been an intensification of investments by foreign groups in sectors strategic to their country of origin, such as some minerals. It is, therefore, crucial for a parent company to implement specific controls in its management control systems. In these circumstances,...

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the management accounting literature by reviewing how previous studies conceptualised the relationship between sustainability reporting and management control systems, analysing the main themes and discussing potential future developments of the...

The Brazilian public administration has adopted risk management as a good governance practice. Its implementation is mandatory for all bodies and entities of the Federal Executive Branch, with wide dissemination of regulations and risk management manuals covering other federal powers and levels....

The main issue is the organisation of firms when different degrees of labour participation are taken into account. We start reviewing the literature on the LM firm. We then consider a less radical labour participation, i.e. the Aoki firm. We survey extensions of the Aoki's firm to the case of...

In diesem Beitrag wird anhand verschiedener Unternehmensinteressen untersucht, welche Unternehmen vom Euro profitieren und welche nicht. Im Ergebnis ist die Gemeinschaftswährung vor allem für exportstarke Unternehmen in exportstarken Ländern wie Deutschland von Vorteil, was ihre Befürwortung...

This paper applies the theory of aspiration adaptation to industrial economics. It is motivated by the question, frequently raised in the context of theoretical and empirical research on industrial innovation, of what triggers a firm's innovative activity. We develop a model of the management's...