Agricultural enterprises in Mexico have traditionally lacked administrative technical expertise, have been limited to use the minimum tools necessary to meet their fiscal commitments, and have neglected innovative techniques that would allow them to increase the agribusiness' profits. In this...

Education should give attention to the growing demand, so that the state should not lose its responsibility to society to offer this social commitment, even when private initiative tends to absorb a significant proportion of students. The parameters of accreditation, certification part of new...

Purpose – This paper seeks to extend the understanding of how formal management control systems (MCSs) contribute to the construction of performance management systems (PMSs) in the French higher education (HE) sector. Design/methodology/approach – Empirical data are gathered both at the...

In this paper we discuss the Management Control Systems (MCSs)–strategy relationship in the light of an empirical analysis. We debate the attention to the fit of MCS and strategy at given moments in time which is typical of a contingency approach, and we search for an understanding of the...

The management control systems,obstacle or mover of the strategic adaptation ? An illustration through the development of new control systems in five French networks companies. The management control systems are traditionally seen as the tools of the implementation of a predetermined strategy,...

Planning and budgeting is a key controlling tool for most of the organizations, including notfor- profit ones. The paper focuses on specifics of the budgeting process, particularly the phase of drawing up the budget, in non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Based on the research, the paper...

The paper explores the effective design of management control systems in terms of managing exchange rate risks for not-for-profit non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Compared to business organizations, NGOs have just limited possibilities to tackle these risks for several reasons discussed in...

In order the management control system of an organization to be efficient, it has to be tailormade and fits to specifics of both the organization itself and the sector the organization operates in. The paper analyses the specifics typical for management control system of nongovernmental...

This study aims to the behavior of management control; it is providing a model to the behavior of integration of social responsibility in the management control tools. This model was validated with 306 Tunisian companies in the industrial sector. Through a questionnaire, the data collected are...

The concept of "global performance" is used to represent the corporation participation in sustainable development. It is a part of CSR management control system ; it enlarges boundaries of this control and covers a wider range of issues. In theory, it supposes a balanced integration of economic,...