The economic and cultural roots of contemporary American business can be traced directly to developments in the era between the Civil War and World War I. The physical expansion of the country combined with development of transportation and communication infrastructures to create a free market of vast proportion and businesses capable of capitalizing on the accompanying economies of scale, through higher productivity, lower costs, and broader distribution. "The Birth of Big Business in the United States" illuminates the conditions that changed the face of American business and the national...
The economic and cultural roots of contemporary American business can be traced directly to developments in the era between the Civil War and World...
Recent technological and environmental changes have shifted the operations of management control systems from meeting separate, individually based budgetary goals to management control techniques that emphasize group and team control structures. Accordingly, team-based management controls that incorporate normative, instrumental, and coercive controls are being used in complex organizations to monitor production quality and cost control, manage incentive systems, and design and implement management accounting systems. This book provides the first attempt to bring the theory of...
Recent technological and environmental changes have shifted the operations of management control systems from meeting separate, individually based ...
Hardbound. The book applies sociological approaches to organizational change and development to explain process innovation and diffusion in internal auditing and management accounting systems. While management accounting reports have emphasized the measurement of quality and improved organizational performance, the extent to which process innovation strategies of total quality management (TQM) and reengineering have been integrated into behavioral accounting research has been limited. This book broadens quality and process innovation research by incorporating theories from organizational...
Hardbound. The book applies sociological approaches to organizational change and development to explain process innovation and diffusion in internal a...
Accounting literature has viewed sustainability in terms of social, economic and environmental performances. There have been concerns that the relationship between sustainability, accounting and organizational performance cannot be explained unless we can deduce patterns of administrative behaviour that chronicle management practices.
Ecology, Sustainable Development and Accounting argues that, despite the broader social and economic development dimensions of sustainability and the limitations of its extension to corporate and organizational behaviour; an ecological...
Accounting literature has viewed sustainability in terms of social, economic and environmental performances. There have been concerns that the rela...
