This study, conducted in a field setting, examines the pattern of budget and cultural controls across Korean firms and Korean joint ventures with U.S. and European firms in South Korea—a nation with a dominant Confucian philosophy divergent from the modern capitalist philosophy that dominates...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to investigate the joint influence of early product adoption and bank customer accounting in Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach – In‐depth interviews at three Hong Kong banks provided the basis for designing a survey instrument, which was used...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of liberalization forces, political constraints (on labor decisions) and formal control mechanisms (i.e. delegation of decision authority, objective performance measurement and merit‐based rewards) on the performance of...