Covers the evolution of accounting, financial reporting and related institutions for major economies in the world. This title addresses ten European economies, including France, Germany, Italy and the UK as well as the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland.
Examines the roles of organizational justice and trust in management control system. This title explores whether qualitative information contained in annual reports contains potential fraud risk indicators. It includes the findings that suggest that deception can be detected by analyzing management's discussion and analysis.
Volume 33 of Advances in Library Administration and Organization brings together a range of diverse and reflective essays to provide strategies that will be of value in addressing challenges faced by current and future library managers.
A management accounting research journal. It features articles on a variety of topics in management accounting that are relevant to researchers in both practice and academe. It intends to meet the needs of management accounting scholars.
Applications of Management Science presents state-of-the-art studies in the application of management science to solve significant managerial decision-making problems. Volume 15 examines management science application to data envelopment analysis, efficiency and supply chain, quality multi-criteria and financial applications.
Considers the potential of autopoiesis theory to provide an alternate unifying framework for the study of organizations as systems and of organizational phenomena as emergent phenomena. This title includes papers that integrate open systems theory with the pioneering work of Maturana and Varela (1980, 1992) on autopoiesis in biological systems.
Focuses on sensemaking, decisions, actions, and evaluating outcomes relating to managing business-to-business brands including product and service brands. This book features chapters that address aspects of the marketing mix for business-to-business and industrial marketers. It includes papers that provide brand management insights for managers.
Focuses on how market categories shape processes of production and consumption and how these activities in turn shape category systems. This volume explores topics such as: how new categories emerge, become enacted and gain consensus, how categories are used by market agents, and how category systems change over time.
A collection of papers which explore the dynamic, systemic, cognitive, and holistic aspects of internal processes. It presents both theoretical developments and empirical research based on a variety of case studies and other research in diverse industrial and geographical contexts.
This book contains two groups of archival materials. The first group includes an early critique of economics by Eli Ginzberg;The second contains lecture notes taken by F. Taylor Ostrander in courses given by David Taggart Clark (Williams College), Redvers Opie (Oxford), and Frank H. Knight (Chicago) on the history of economics.
Reviews economic institutional approach to business and corporate strategy bringing together the disparate strands of institutional economics-based strategy research. This book focuses on institutional economics' insights regarding diversification, alliances, franchising, geographic location, innovation, and other strategic choices.
How can we account for continuing inequalities in an era promoting enlightened social and economic connections? What mechanisms of perceptions and politics will enable policy makers and scholars to advance significant progressive change? This title examines accounting's contribution to these challenges given the profession's multifaceted roles.
Peter Drucker was timely and inopportune at the same time. It is clear that from his continual formation there has been born a singular, and at the same time multi-faceted, philosophy, which is deliberately difficult to summarize. This book shows the lesser-known side of Peter Drucker as far as his views on his own ideas are concerned.
Author:Francis Yammarino
Fred Danserau
Fred Dansereau
Publishing date:2009
Offers an outlet for the discussion of multi-level problems and solutions across a variety of fields of study. This title contains five major essays with commentaries and rebuttals that cover a range of topics, but in the realms of organizational behavior and leadership.
Facilitates discussion about project-based organizations (PBOs) and how they increasingly pervade business dimensions, from R&D and new product development, to the production of complex capital goods and implementation of organizational change across very different industries such as management consulting, engineering or entertainment.
This volume brings together leading scholars in the field of organisation studies to reflect on the universal phenomena of hierarchy (vertical organisation of tasks) and bureaucracy (rule-bound execution of tasks), resulting in a colourful kaleidoscope of thought-provoking, critical and refreshingly non-mainstream analysis.
Amongst other European and US focussed topics, this volume addresses: the macroeconomic aggregates for England, 1209-2004; capital accumulation in Spain, 1850-2000; British Estate Acts, 1600 to 1830. It also discusses historical trends in food consumption in the United States.
Contains topics that include the design of a country's financial safety nets, the effective policies of acquiring failed banks in reducing moral hazard problems, the voluntary disclosure of real options by corporate managers, and the interrelationship between the housing and general economic activities.
This volume contains six papers on important issues in the field of human resources management, continuing the tradition of the series to develop a more informed understanding of the field. These papers represent excellent scholarship, illustrating the truly interdisciplinary character of the field.
Presents the papers that promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management. This title collects papers on important issues in the field of human resources management, including insights on employment branding, family owned firms, virtual global teams and intrinsic motivation.
Part of the "Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change" series, this title contains three sections of data-driven articles that address topics central to scholarship on social movements and conflict resolution. It also showcases research on a variety of movements, organizations and conflicts in ways that contribute to theory-building.
Includes the articles that highlight research on the role of western economic advisors in China before the Communist Revolution, minimum wage legislation, a symposium on Clement Juglar, and a comparison of the work in the history of economics and the history of science.
