Do organizational life-cycle and venture capital investors affect the management control systems used by the firm?
✍ Scribed by Hanna Silvola
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 300 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0882-6110
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✦ Synopsis
This paper investigates how the organizational life-cycle stage of the firm and the existence of venture capital investors affect the use of management control systems. The study consists of three types of management control systems, i.e. business planning, budgeting and management control techniques. Our empirical analyses are based on a survey questionnaire of 105 Finnish firms operating in all industries at different lifecycle stages. The results indicate that the business planning and use of management control techniques differ between the organizational life-cycle stage of the firm and the existence of venture capital investors. However, the existence of venture capital investors is also essential in maturity and revival firms while the earlier literature emphasizes their role in start-up and growth firms. Our results remain the same after conducting various robustness checks.