Management control : theories, issues, and practices

Includes index

Preface - The Domain of Organisational Control - Approaches to Control in the Organisational Literature - Structures of Control - Procedures for Control - The Context of Control - Accounting Systems and Control - Divisional Control; M. Broadbent & J. Cullen - Strategic Control; A. Coad - Control of Embedded Operations; Spanning Traditional Boundaries; T. Berry - Economics and Control; W. Seal - Performance Indicators and Control in the Public Sector; P. Smith - Organisational Culture and Control; K. Langfield-Smith - Management Control Systems of Japanese Companies Operating in the United Kingdom; I.S. Demirag - Management Accounting: The Western Problematic against the Japanese Application; J. Williams, K. Williams, C. Haslam, A. Makotu, A. Toshio, M. Isutomo - Management Control in an Airline; C. Wilkinson - Control and the National Health Service: Some Psychology of Managing Healthcare with Cash Budgets; D. Purdy - Management Control in Schools; J. Broadbent - Management Control in the Financial Services Sector; K. Soin - Manufacturing Accountability; T.C. Jones & D. Dugdale -Endpiece - References

This book provides a starting-point from which to explore management control. By providing a wide-ranging discussion of the issues and institutional settings for this subject, it seeks to provide a resource which can be 'dipped into' on a flexible basis. Divided into three sections with different focuses, nevertheless each chapter is self-standing and can be amalgamated to suit reader preferences.