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Management control : Antony J Berry

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Description: xii,410 pages. : illustrations.; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD31 MAN
Contents:
The Domain of Organisational Control.- Approaches to Control in the Organisational Literature.- Structures of Control.- Procedures for Control.- The Context of Control.- Performance Management: A Framework for Analysis.- Accounting Systems and Control.- Performance Management Practice.- Divisional Control and Performance.- Strategy and Control.- Culture and Control.- Intellectual Control and the Management Control of Knowledge Resources.- Control in Networks.- Control of Supply Chains.- Management Controls in the Public Services: The Example of Schools.- Risk and Control: The Control of Risk and the Risk of Control.- Ethics, Organisation and Control.- Sustainability and Management Control.- End
Summary: This book provides a no-nonsense approach to a range of contemporary and perennial control challenges in both the commercial and public sectors. Growing from the work of the Management Control Association it meets the need for a broad and flexible text on the area. It gives an overview of management control, from its roots in scientific management to the impact of performance management. It also covers specialist topics that reflect the expertise of the international range of contributors. These include issues of strategic and divisional control, the impact of culture and networks, and developments in risk, ethics, sustainability and knowledge management. --from back cover
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Book Book Main Library Open Shelf HD31 MAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 110091 Available BK80498

Includes bibliographic references and index

The Domain of Organisational Control.- Approaches to Control in the Organisational Literature.- Structures of Control.- Procedures for Control.- The Context of Control.- Performance Management: A Framework for Analysis.- Accounting Systems and Control.- Performance Management Practice.- Divisional Control and Performance.- Strategy and Control.- Culture and Control.- Intellectual Control and the Management Control of Knowledge Resources.- Control in Networks.- Control of Supply Chains.- Management Controls in the Public Services: The Example of Schools.- Risk and Control: The Control of Risk and the Risk of Control.- Ethics, Organisation and Control.- Sustainability and Management Control.- End

This book provides a no-nonsense approach to a range of contemporary and perennial control challenges in both the commercial and public sectors. Growing from the work of the Management Control Association it meets the need for a broad and flexible text on the area. It gives an overview of management control, from its roots in scientific management to the impact of performance management. It also covers specialist topics that reflect the expertise of the international range of contributors. These include issues of strategic and divisional control, the impact of culture and networks, and developments in risk, ethics, sustainability and knowledge management. --from back cover

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