Management Control: Theories, Issues and Practices

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The domain of organisational control....Pages 3-16
Approaches to control in the organisational literature....Pages 17-26
Structures of control....Pages 27-40
Procedures for control....Pages 41-60
The context of control....Pages 61-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Accounting systems and control....Pages 77-94
Divisional control....Pages 95-118
Strategic control....Pages 119-138
Control of embedded operations spanning traditional boundaries....Pages 139-152
Economics and control....Pages 153-162
Performance indicators and control in the public sector....Pages 163-178
Organisational culture and control....Pages 179-200
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Management control systems of Japanese companies operating in the United Kingdom....Pages 203-220
Management accounting: the Western problematic against the Japanese application....Pages 221-237
Management control in an airline....Pages 238-254
Control and the National Health Service: some psychology of managing health care with budgets and cash limits....Pages 255-270
Management control in schools....Pages 271-282
Management control in the financial services sector....Pages 283-298
Manufacturing accountability....Pages 299-323
Endpiece....Pages 324-329
Back Matter....Pages 330-362