I examine how organisations are responding to the threat of identity fraud and the challenges that they face in doing so. Quantitative data were collected from 29 Australian organisations. The majority of organisations sampled emphasised the 'anticipation' of identity fraud and, in particular,...

This paper studies the process by which a change in the institutional logic of an organisational field diffuses through the management control system of a firm. The theoretical framework proposed by Hasselbladh and Kallinikos (2000) enables us to describe the institutionalisation process of...

We posit that the value of a manager's human capital depends on the firm's business strategy. The resulting interaction between business strategy and managerial incentives affects the organization of business activities. We illustrate the impact of this interaction on firm boundaries in a...

On the borderline of management control (MC) and human resource management (HRM) systems, this article investigates the question of performance evaluation criteria, where both systems overlap. The perspective is interpretative, with a focus on the individual perceptions of evaluated persons. The...

This paper examines the impact of performance measure diversity and the use of subjective performance measures on performance evaluation bias. The empirical results indicate that both performance measure diversity and subjectivity are positively related to performance evaluation bias. More...

This study examines control in a teamwork setting, experimentally investigating two financial incentive systems that have been proposed in the agency theory-based analytic literature. Both systems rely on mutual monitoring, the ability of team members to observe each other's actions. However,...

We derive and present the formula for optimal debt under the assumption that tax shields are discounted at the cost of levered equity, Ke and cash flows are on perpetuity. The formulation is consistent and is derived from basic financial principles. This formulation is valid for non-growing...

In this article we use a real life case from an emerging country to illustrate the valuation with discounted cash flow methods that include complexities such as unpaid taxes, losses carried forward, foreign exchange debt, presumptive income and inflation adjustments to the Financial Statements....

This paper presents the derivation of non-circular formulas for the calculation of the cost of equity, WACC, equity value (as a function either of initial debt or leverage), and levered firm value, using some previous results and showing their consistency with other well-known expressions....