Management Control
Themes, Issues and Practices
Published on 27. March 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-333-57243-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides a starting point from which to explore Management Control. By providing a wide-ranging discussion of the issues and institutional settings for this subject, it seeks to provide a resource which can be 'dipped into' on a flexible basis. Divided into 3 sections with different focuses, nevertheless each chapter is self standing and can be amalgamated to suit reader preferences. Section one explores the various approaches to organisational control by focusing on systems approaches, the ways in which tasks are strucutred and the detailed procedures which can be used, concluding with the context in which control exists. Section two looks at specific issues such as accounting, issues of strategy and the use of performance indicators. The impact of Japanese culture is also examined. Section three looks more closely at particular organisational settings such as the airline industry, schools, the NHS, financial services and manufacturing. Aimed at those on advanced undergraduate and post-graduate courses, Management Control should also provide food for thought for practising managers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 157 mm
Weight
734 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-57243-6 (9780333572436)
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03/1995
Palgrave Macmillan
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Content
Preface - The Domain of Organisational Control - Approaches to Control in the Organisational Literature - Structures of Control - Procedures for Control - The Context of Control - Accounting Systems and Control - Divisional Control; M. Broadbent & J. Cullen - Strategic Control; A. Coad - Control of Embedded Operations; Spanning Traditional Boundaries; T. Berry - Economics and Control; W. Seal - Performance Indicators and Control in the Public Sector; P. Smith - Organisational Culture and Control; K. Langfield-Smith - Management Control Systems of Japanese Companies Operating in the United Kingdom; I.S. Demirag - Management Accounting: The Western Problematic against the Japanese Application; J. Williams, K. Williams, C. Haslam, A. Makotu, A. Toshio, M. Isutomo - Management Control in an Airline; C. Wilkinson - Control and the National Health Service: Some Psychology of Managing Healthcare with Cash Budgets; D. Purdy - Management Control in Schools; J. Broadbent - Management Control in the Financial Services Sector; K. Soin - Manufacturing Accountability; T.C. Jones & D. Dugdale -Endpiece - References