This paper explores the organizational dynamics of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). ERM is the main form taken by firms' increasing efforts to organize uncertainty, which 'exploded' in the 1990s. The ERM approach seeks to link risk management with business strategy and objective-setting,...

Moving from the growing relevance of the enterprise risk management (ERM) concept, this paper provides empirical evidence of ERM in practice. The paper presents ERM actual uses in a panel of nine Italian companies from different industrial fields and legislative settings and analyses the...

This paper reports on the findings of a survey on management accounting systems in 289 Italian organisations. The research studied the adoption of three specific techniques: ABC/ABM, Balanced Scorecard and EVAâ„¢, analysing the key success factors of companies which claimed to adopt them,...

This paper reports on the findings of a survey on management accounting systems in 289 Italian organisations. The research studied the adoption of three specific techniques: ABC/ABM, Balanced Scorecard and EVAâ¢, analysing the key success factors of companies which claimed to adopt them, their...

This study furthers the on-going debate about the design of efficient, high-quality healthcare delivery by adding new insights about the coordination of intra-sector services. Insights come from an embedded single case study about the design of a Regional Agency in Lombardy (Northern Italy) to...

Objectives The increasing pace of development of healthcare technologies obliges hospitals to increase both the rationality and the accountability of priority setting for technology adoption. This paper aims at identifying which are the relevant issues for technology assessment and selection at...

Patients are increasingly encouraged to become active players in self-care and shared decision-making. Such attention has led to an explosion of terms – empowerment, engagement, enablement, participation, involvement, activation – each having multiple and overlapping meanings. The resulting...

This study addresses the role of Performance Measurement Systems (PMS) in public networks to investigate how PMS processes support the network managerial actions known as connecting, exploring content, arranging, and process agreements. A case study methodology was used to investigate the...

The design and use of Performance Measurement Systems (PMS) have been widely investigated in management studies. However, recent work has highlighted the potential importance of treating design and use not as separate dimensions, but rather as mutually entangled features, calling for further...

This paper examines the experience of UK charities in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. The focus of this paper is on charities in the specific study setting of the city. The city is an important location in contemporary society. Resource dependency theory is used to analyse the...