<p>Management control is developing as a vigorous area of academic research. New Perspectives in Management Control provided a survey of the area. This second monograph is avowedly critical and constitutes the first sustained critique of management control.</p>
New Perspectives in Management Control
β Scribed by Tony Lowe, John L. J. Machin (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 324
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-21
Management Control Systems: Whence and Whither?....Pages 22-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Management Control and Methodology....Pages 45-58
Concepts of Control: the Contribution of Cybernetics and Systems Theory to Management Control....Pages 59-87
Open Social Systems and Management Control....Pages 88-95
Organisational Design and Management Control....Pages 96-117
Organisational Control: a Resource Dependence Approach....Pages 118-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Motivational Aspects of Management Control....Pages 137-162
Management Control and Worker Participation in Management....Pages 163-177
Self-control....Pages 178-190
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
A Communication-based Methodology for Research into, and Development of, Management Control Systems....Pages 193-226
Convention in Financial Control....Pages 227-239
The Contribution of the Cybernetic Approach to Management Control....Pages 240-267
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Organisational Effectiveness and Management Control....Pages 271-287
Back Matter....Pages 288-318
β¦ Subjects
Business Strategy/Leadership
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