Sökning: "Accounting and Control"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 188 avhandlingar innehållade orden Accounting and Control.

  1. 11. In Between Competing Ideals : On the Relationships among Accounting, NPM, and Welfare

    Författare :Anton Borell; Fredrik Svärdsten Nymans; Roland Almqvist; Jan Löwstedt; Andrea Mennicken; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Accounting; Management Control; NPM; Welfare; Hybridity; Public Sector; Education; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Sammanfattning : We know that public organizations today are expected to manage activities on multiple, and somewhat incongruent ideals. Since the development of the New Public Management (NPM) wave, public organizations have been increasingly subject to governance by markets, economic frugality and outputs for the purpose of improving efficiency. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Management Accounting Above and Under Ground : Field Studies of Operations Managers’ Everyday Work

    Författare :Amanda Curry; Anders Hersinger; Kent Nilsson; Hans Englund; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Accounting and Control; Redovisning och styrning;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns operations managers who are required to adhere to both management accounting and operational concerns in their everyday operational work. The question addressed in this thesis is how management accounting is implicated in the everyday operational work of operations managers and their team members in production environments. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Sensemaking and management : a theoretical discussion with research implications

    Författare :Christian Ifvarsson; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Redovisning och styrning; Accounting and Control;

    Sammanfattning : The general interest of this research is problems concerned with new information and technology, and their development and use in the management context. One important aspect of this problem has been argued to be how people come to make sense of new information and technology. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Performance Management, Rationality and Participation in Public Sector Organisation

    Författare :Geoffrey Heath; Elisabeth Berg; Jim Barry; Suzana Grubnic; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Communicative; instrumental and value rationality; accounting and performance management; public sector organisations; public management and governance; participation; deliberation and democracy; Arbetsvetenskap; Human Work Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis critically examines the role of performance management in public sector organisations. In particular, it explores how performance management relates to different concepts of rationality (instrumental, value and communicative), including issues around rationality and power, and the relationship between these concepts and various models of participation and democracy. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Beyond IT and Productivity : Effects of Digitized Information Flows in the Logging Industry

    Författare :Maria Kollberg; Birger Rapp; Thomas Falk; Bo Carlsson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Information technology; productivity paradox; digitization; logging industry; Business and economics; Ekonomi; Economic Information Systems; Ekonomiska informationssystem;

    Sammanfattning : The IT and productivity paradox has been the subject of considerable research in recent decades. Many previous studies, based mainly on macroeconomic statistics or on aggregated company data, have reached disparate conclusions. Consequently, the question whether IT investments contribute to productivity growth is still heavily debated. LÄS MER