The concept of internal control has developed along with audit practice. As demands have been made for greater accountability in corporate governance, the significance of internal control systems in companies has increased. Traditionally internal control has had a fairly direct relationship to financial reporting quality but wider approaches to internal control have expanded those boundaries much further. Stakeholders are increasingly concerned with the effectiveness of internal controls, and disclosure requirements are making firms to go public with regard to their internal control systems....
The concept of internal control has developed along with audit practice. As demands have been made for greater accountability in corporate governance,...
Monetary incentives, as a driving force for human behavior, are the main theme of this book. The primary goals underlying the application of monetary incentive systems in companies are motivating employees to strive for superior productivity in line with the interests of employers, and hiring adequately skilled employees. The first goal refers to incentive effects, the latter to sorting effects. This book introduces important theories and concepts concerning behavior under influence of monetary incentives; it reviews existing economic frameworks and identifies specific contingency variables....
Monetary incentives, as a driving force for human behavior, are the main theme of this book. The primary goals underlying the application of monetary ...
Focuses on Nework Governance that contributes to the literature by offering fresh perspectives on network goals and performance, inter-organizational learning and trust in alliances, corporate governance issues in cooperatives, governance of cross-border retail networks, contract design and governance innovations in cooperatives and fanchising.
Focuses on Nework Governance that contributes to the literature by offering fresh perspectives on network goals and performance, inter-organizational ...
This book reveals and presents the root-causes that lead to varying improvement performances across different locations of a global positioned manufacturing organization. Conducting a multiple case study analysis of manufacturing sites around the world, the author found that the quality of the strategy deployment process is vital, especially when it is clear to all affected employees a situation we refer to as strategy cascading. But having a sound strategy cascading alone is not enough. The authorworked outthat a company, which achieves to align its sound strategy cascading with the company...
This book reveals and presents the root-causes that lead to varying improvement performances across different locations of a global positioned manufac...
This book presents an in-depth perspective of knowledge as a fundamental process of any organization rather than just another resource to be managed. The author presents a process-oriented theory of creating and applying knowledge directed towards both researchers and practitioners. In this book the author develops normative knowledge management guidelines which draw from a unique view on knowledge, discussed in the field of philosophy since Plato but neglected by most knowledge management authors - by applying a philosophically grounded 'social epistemology' to organizations. The guidelines...
This book presents an in-depth perspective of knowledge as a fundamental process of any organization rather than just another resource to be managed. ...
This book presentsthe comparative evaluation of international and industrial factors affecting the financial condition of enterprises. In the theoretical part, the results of previous research on the occurrence of the country and industry effect in the financial health of companies are reviewed. The aim of the empirical study is to determinesuch factors - national or industrial ones - that have a greater impact on the corporate performance in the selected European Union countries.Corporate performance is measured and described with the use of a large setof fundamental ratios.Corporate...
This book presentsthe comparative evaluation of international and industrial factors affecting the financial condition of enterprises. In the theoreti...
The primary contribution of this book is to integrate the important disciplines which simultaneously impact the investment appraisal process. The book presents a study that develops a new approach to investment appraisal which uses a multiple objective linear programming (MOLP) model to integrate the selected disciplines which include capital markets, corporate governance and capital budgeting. The research covers two case studies, one in the e-commerce sector and another in the airline industry in which the above disciplines are integrated. Readers from the areas of corporate governance,...
The primary contribution of this book is to integrate the important disciplines which simultaneously impact the investment appraisal process. The book...
This volume explores the work environment in multinational corporations. To do so, it integrates studies on the organizational sciences, cross-cultural management, positive psychology and sociology within a single comprehensive framework. Twenty-two authors from six countries identify the challenges in multicultural workplaces, the positives of interactions, cultural clashes and their organizational preconditions. They add inter-organizational, institutional and critical perspectives to the analysis within the framework of multinationals and complex, hybrid cultural environments. The book...
This volume explores the work environment in multinational corporations. To do so, it integrates studies on the organizational sciences, cross-cult...
This book provides a Management Science approach to quality management in food production. Aspects of food quality, product conformance and reliability/food safety are examined, starting with wheat and ending with its value chain transformation into bread. Protein qualities that influence glycemic index levels in bread are used to compare the value chains of France and the US. With Kaizen models the book shows how changes in these characteristics are the result of management decisions made by the wheat growers in response to government policy and industry strategy. Lately, it provides...
This book provides a Management Science approach to quality management in food production. Aspects of food quality, product conformance and reliabilit...
This book deals with the concepts of leadership and communication in business organizations, initially on a general level and then in detail through an analysis of specific cases. First the book provides a contextual framework to explain the role and importance of the topic. The foundation is provided by selected behavioural and situational theories. Then 15 different leadership models and their respective communication strategies are specified. The interaction of leadership and communication is examined explaining organizational communication and its tools. In the third part the book looks...
This book deals with the concepts of leadership and communication in business organizations, initially on a general level and then in detail through a...
