Managing in Dynamic Business Environments
Between Control and Autonomy
Published on 31. October 2013
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-1-78254-452-4 (ISBN)
Description
This timely and innovative book focuses on budgeting control and ongoing beyond budgeting trends and its consequences for the organization.Ensuring an optimal balance between individual autonomy and management control is a critical challenge for organizations operating in dynamic business environments. Too much of the former leads to chaos, and too much of the latter guarantees rigidity. This book explores the tensions that arise in seeking the best possible balance between these two dimensions. Resolving these tensions is a critical challenge for achieving competitiveness.
In order to examine budgeting control and ongoing 'beyond budgeting', the book's starting point is the Beyond Budgeting movement and what it implies for a new approach to autonomy and management control. This discussion is further supplemented with a broader approach to the issue of control that spans issues such as self-control, time control, transparency as control, ethical control and cultural control.
This book's innovative and explorative approach will be of interest to students at master level, scholars and senior and middle-level managers. HR departments will find it instrumental to their work and practice.
Contributors: S.D. Becker, T. Bjornenak, B. Bogsnes, A. Bourmistrov, B. Catasus, B. Espedal, P.N. Gooderham, D. Johanson, K. Kaarboe, T. Malmi, M. Messner, O. Nordhaug, H. Norreklit, L.J.T. Pedersen, N. Sandalgaard, A.M. Sandvik, I. Stensaker, S. Terjesen
In order to examine budgeting control and ongoing 'beyond budgeting', the book's starting point is the Beyond Budgeting movement and what it implies for a new approach to autonomy and management control. This discussion is further supplemented with a broader approach to the issue of control that spans issues such as self-control, time control, transparency as control, ethical control and cultural control.
This book's innovative and explorative approach will be of interest to students at master level, scholars and senior and middle-level managers. HR departments will find it instrumental to their work and practice.
Contributors: S.D. Becker, T. Bjornenak, B. Bogsnes, A. Bourmistrov, B. Catasus, B. Espedal, P.N. Gooderham, D. Johanson, K. Kaarboe, T. Malmi, M. Messner, O. Nordhaug, H. Norreklit, L.J.T. Pedersen, N. Sandalgaard, A.M. Sandvik, I. Stensaker, S. Terjesen
Reviews / Votes
'This is a book for all who are interested in organizational management philosophy or control practices as the book offers new ways of understanding the dynamics of management. By employing multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives the book provides refreshing and engaging analyses of beyond budgeting and different forms of control. This book will be a source of inspiration for researchers and practitioners by given reasoning and ideas for better understanding of the dynamics, mysteries and paradoxes of control in contemporary organizations.' -- Frode Mellemvik, University of Nordland, NorwayMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78254-452-4 (9781782544524)
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Persons
Edited by Katarina Kaarboe, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Paul N. Gooderham, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway and Middlesex University Business School, London, UK and Hanne Norreklit, Aarhus University, Denmark (Affiliated with NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway)
Content
Contents:
Preface
Katarina Kaarboe
1. Control and Autonomy - Management Challenges and Tensions
Katarina Kaarboe, Paul N. Gooderham and Hanne Norreklit
PART I: BUDGETING CONTROL AND BEYOND
2. Taking Reality Seriously - Towards a More Self-regulating Management Model at Statoil
Bjarte Bogsnes
3. Environmental Uncertainty and the Use of Budgets
Niels Sandalgaard
4. Management Accounting Tools in Banks: Are Banks Without Budgets More Profitable?
Trond Bjornenak
5. Beyond Budgeting from the American and Norwegian Perspectives: The Embeddedness of Management Models in Corporate Governance Systems
Daniel Johanson
6. Putting Beyond Budgeting Ideas into Practice
Katarina Kaarboe, Inger Stensaker and Teemu Malmi
7. A New Way of Being a Controller - From Bellboy to Actor
Hanne Norreklit and Katarina Kaarboe
PART II: PERSPECTIVES AND CONTROL DIMENSIONS
8. Management Control as Temporal Structuring
Sebastian D. Becker and Martin Messner
9. The Planning-regime Concept and its Application to Three Examples of Organizational Budgeting
Anatoli Bourmistrov and Katarina Kaarboe
10. Does Managerial Discretion Affect Learning from Experience in Organizations?
Bjarne Espedal and Alexander Madsen Sandvik
11. The Autonomy-creativity Orientation of Elite Business School Students in the US and Norway
Paul N. Gooderham, Alexander Madsen Sandvik, Siri Terjesen and Odd Nordhaug
12. Systems of Accountability and Personal Responsibility
Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen
Epilogue: Welcome to DYMACO
Bino Catasus
Index
Preface
Katarina Kaarboe
1. Control and Autonomy - Management Challenges and Tensions
Katarina Kaarboe, Paul N. Gooderham and Hanne Norreklit
PART I: BUDGETING CONTROL AND BEYOND
2. Taking Reality Seriously - Towards a More Self-regulating Management Model at Statoil
Bjarte Bogsnes
3. Environmental Uncertainty and the Use of Budgets
Niels Sandalgaard
4. Management Accounting Tools in Banks: Are Banks Without Budgets More Profitable?
Trond Bjornenak
5. Beyond Budgeting from the American and Norwegian Perspectives: The Embeddedness of Management Models in Corporate Governance Systems
Daniel Johanson
6. Putting Beyond Budgeting Ideas into Practice
Katarina Kaarboe, Inger Stensaker and Teemu Malmi
7. A New Way of Being a Controller - From Bellboy to Actor
Hanne Norreklit and Katarina Kaarboe
PART II: PERSPECTIVES AND CONTROL DIMENSIONS
8. Management Control as Temporal Structuring
Sebastian D. Becker and Martin Messner
9. The Planning-regime Concept and its Application to Three Examples of Organizational Budgeting
Anatoli Bourmistrov and Katarina Kaarboe
10. Does Managerial Discretion Affect Learning from Experience in Organizations?
Bjarne Espedal and Alexander Madsen Sandvik
11. The Autonomy-creativity Orientation of Elite Business School Students in the US and Norway
Paul N. Gooderham, Alexander Madsen Sandvik, Siri Terjesen and Odd Nordhaug
12. Systems of Accountability and Personal Responsibility
Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen
Epilogue: Welcome to DYMACO
Bino Catasus
Index