Korean market regulator designates external auditors for certain companies that have strong incentives to manage their earnings or that require strict external audits (the auditor designation system, ADS). The ADS offers an interesting research setting for examining the effects of transferring...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Inamori Management Philosophy: Schematic representation -- Chapter 3 Kazuo Inamori -- Chapter 4 Ideology and Rules -- Chapter 5 Leadership -- Chapter 6 Amoeba Management and hourly profit system (AMS) -- Chapter 7 Inamori’s strategy analysed through...

This study focuses on the relationship between business strategy, organization structure, and diagnostic control systems. The project analyzes data from 75 field studies to illustrate how managers adjust span of accountability and span of control to motivate different levels of innovation and...

Tensions of organization design -- Aligning span of attention -- Unit structure -- Diagnostic control systems -- Interactive networks -- Shared responsibilities -- Adjusting the levers : three examples -- Designing organizations for performance.