/implications – Organisation theory provides suggestions for more fruitful definitions of the often-used concepts of direction, control …, administration and influence. These terms may be substituted with the well-defined concepts of management, power and control …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to complement existing research of the relationship between concentrated ownership … control, and it is positively correlated with blockholders’ capability of influencing firm value. Second, everything else … for the purpose of pursuing private benefits of control. Originality/value This paper tries to make two contributions to …

intended change in management control in interfirm transactional relationships. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is …‐contribution to research in management control, this paper extends TCE‐reasoning by incorporating the notion of trust into the … analysis. Different sources of trust as well as the management control related impacts of trust are explored. Findings – The …

development of wireless control camera platforms.  …

of increased managerial control over professionals. Design/methodology/approach – The main thesis in Lipsky's work …

Studies problems related to modelling, control and monitoring of circulatory systems with an artificial heart. First … reflex control systems, such as baroreceptor feedback loops, and nonlinearities of vessel compliance, which are inherent in … modulated (PFM) control scheme for the circulatory systems with an artificial heart. This scheme enables us to regulate the …

In response to developments around as well as within organisations, managers are faced with a control …‐commitment dilemma. A new rationality of governance has emerged besides the well‐known rationality of bureaucratic control. This new set … control‐commitment dilemma and the intended or unintended consequences of choices made.  …

Management control over production has often meant control over one means of production: people. There is evidence of … the use of social isolation to control human behavior throughout recorded history. Traces the development of social …

Purpose – To develop a model in which alternative patterns of management control are confronted with situational and … transaction cost economics extended with systems theoretical notions on trust. Findings – Three patterns of management control are … factors that determine the choice of a control pattern or elements therein are identified and confronted with the three …