A merger or acquisition is usually a challenging endeavor with a single ultimate aim: to create value for the owner. This book shows how different stakeholders, internal and external, may play a critical role during a merger or an acquisition process.
A merger or acquisition is usually a challenging endeavor with a single ultimate aim: to create value for the owner. This book shows how different sta...
How should firms' control systems be designed and used to formulate and implement strategies that will contribute to competitive advantage and sustained high performance? This book offers some thought-provoking suggestions.
It contains empirical studies of such diverse manufacturing enterprises as Atlas Copco, Electrolux, Saab, Scania, SCA Packing and Volvo, as well as an insurance company and two chamber orchestras. All firms and organizations presented offer interesting and exciting insights, each in a specific way and each with a fascinating history.
The book presents...
How should firms' control systems be designed and used to formulate and implement strategies that will contribute to competitive advantage and sust...
This book is about financial accounting and management control and how these two information systems are related as well as how their objectives conflict. At the most fundamental level, the objective of financial accounting is to provide owners and funders with comparable information on a company's value creation. The aim of management control, on the other hand, is to give the board, senior executives and employees unique information for strategy formulation and implementation. One often-mentioned negative effect is the risk of financial accounting affecting management control design and...
This book is about financial accounting and management control and how these two information systems are related as well as how their objectives confl...
Architectural practices worldwide have to deal with increasingly complex design requirements. How do practices acquire the ability to do so?
The Changing Shape of Practice provides a handbook of examples for practices that wish to integrate more research into their work and a reference book for students that seek to prepare themselves for the changing shape of practice in architecture.
It addresses the increasing integration of research undertaken in architectural practices of different sizes ranging from small to very large practices from the UK, USA, Europe and Asia. The book is...
Architectural practices worldwide have to deal with increasingly complex design requirements. How do practices acquire the ability to do so?
Research in the creative fields of architecture, design, music and the arts has experienced dynamic development for over two decades. The research in these practice- and arts-based fields has become increasingly mature but has also led to various discussions on what constitutes doctoral proficiency in these fields. The term doctorateness is often used when referring to the assessment of the production of doctoral research and the research competence of research students, but in architecture and the arts, the concept of doctorateness has not yet attained a clearly articulated definition....
Research in the creative fields of architecture, design, music and the arts has experienced dynamic development for over two decades. The research ...
This book examines the relationship between strategy, control and competitive advantage with the help of empirical studies from diverse manufacturing enterprises. It presents a framework for analyzing successful combinations of strategy and control systems.
This book examines the relationship between strategy, control and competitive advantage with the help of empirical studies from diverse manufacturing ...
Bank Regulation: Effects on Strategy, Financial Accounting and Management Control discusses and problematizes how regulation is affecting bank strategies as well as their financial accounting and management control systems. Following a period of bank de-regulation, the new millennium brought a drastic change, with many new regulations. Some of these are the result of the financial crisis of 2008-2009. Other regulations, such as the introduction in 2005 of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for quoted companies in the EU, can be related to the introduction of a new...
Bank Regulation: Effects on Strategy, Financial Accounting and Management Control discusses and problematizes how regulation is affecting ...
This book is about financial accounting and management control and how these two information systems are related as well as how their objectives conflict. An interesting, and perhaps unexpected conclusion is that management control seems to affect financial accounting almost as much as financial accounting affects management control.
This book is about financial accounting and management control and how these two information systems are related as well as how their objectives confl...
