Accounting for Managers: Interpreting accounting information for decision-making

RESEARCH IN MANAGEMENT CONTROL 277 managerial thought is well rehearsed. Less well known, but providing an excel- lent example o ...

278 ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS in management control seem to have followed a similar pattern, so we use the schema suggested by Sco ...

RESEARCH IN MANAGEMENT CONTROL 279 from a societal perspective. This is also a major theme of Stafford Beer, most comprehensivel ...

280 ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS After that date it was increasingly recognized that organizations were highly inter- dependent with ...

RESEARCH IN MANAGEMENT CONTROL 281 in his article entitled ‘The Impact of Budgets on People’, an emphasis reversed neatly almost ...

282 ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS relative neglect of the natural (albeit) closed approaches of the preceding years. The recognition o ...

RESEARCH IN MANAGEMENT CONTROL 283 the question of how legitimacy becomes established and how it works through to different hier ...

284 ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS (September, Vol. 4, No. 3). Both these publications (plus the edited collections by Lowe and Machin, ...

RESEARCH IN MANAGEMENT CONTROL 285 Themes for future development Here, we suggest some lines of enquiry which we believe it woul ...

286 ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS the flexibility to adapt to the consequences of change as they become apparent. The ‘management of c ...

RESEARCH IN MANAGEMENT CONTROL 287 systems theory, such approaches rarely inform empirical research work. Perhaps the most impor ...

288 ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS the firm. Most of the management control literature has concentrated its attention at the level of t ...

RESEARCH IN MANAGEMENT CONTROL 289 the ‘glass ceiling’ still exists. The implications of these changes on MCSs remains to be res ...

290 ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS Broadbent, J. (1992). ‘Change in Organisations: A Case Study of the Use of Accounting Information in ...

RESEARCH IN MANAGEMENT CONTROL 291 Laughlin, R. C. and J. Broadbent (1993). ‘Accounting and Law: Partners in the Juridification ...

292 ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS Parker, L. D. (1986).Developing Control Concepts in the 20th Century. Garland, New York. Perrow, C. ...

Reading C Covaleski, M. A., Dirsmith, M. W.and Samuel, S. (1996). Managerial accounting research: The contributions of organizat ...

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296 ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS of the organizational and sociological theoretical traditions which have been used in managerial acc ...