Management control effectiveness and strategy: An empirical analysis of packages and systems

DS Bedford, T Malmi, M Sandelin - Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2016 - Elsevier
This study examines management control (MC) combinations that are effective in different
strategic contexts through two related approaches–MC as a package and MC as a system …

A review of quantitative research in management control systems and strategy

K Langfield-Smith - Handbooks of management accounting research, 2006 - Elsevier
This chapter reviews and critiques quantitative research that focuses on the relation
between management control systems (MCS) and strategy. This quantitative research …

Management control systems and strategy: a critical review

K Langfield-Smith - Accounting, organizations and society, 1997 - Elsevier
This paper reviews research that studies the relationship between management control
systems (MCS) and business strategy. Empirical research studies that use contingency …

[PDF][PDF] Management control systems and strategy: What's been happening?

B Tucker, H Thorne, B Gurd - Journal of Accounting Literature, 2009 - academia.edu
The point of departure of this paper is the agenda for further research advanced by Langfield-
Smith (1997) in her critique of studies investigating the relationship between management …

Operation of management control practices as a package—A case study on control system variety in a growth firm context

M Sandelin - Management Accounting Research, 2008 - Elsevier
This empirical case study examines the operation of management control practices as a
package in a growth firm context by paying particular attention to the couplings among …

Management control systems and strategy: A resource-based perspective

JF Henri - Accounting, organizations and society, 2006 - Elsevier
The aim of this study is to examine, from a resource-based perspective, the relationships
between the use of management control systems (MCS) and organizational capabilities …

Management control systems as a package—Opportunities, challenges and research directions

T Malmi, DA Brown - Management accounting research, 2008 - Elsevier
There has been very little explicit theoretical and empirical research on the concept of
management control systems (MCS) as a package despite the existence of the idea in …

An empirical analysis of the levers of control framework

SK Widener - Accounting, organizations and society, 2007 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to use the levers of control framework to explore the
antecedents of control systems–various facets of strategy that drive the use of controls; to …

Conceptual and empirical issues in understanding management control combinations

DS Bedford - Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper discusses several conceptual and empirical issues related to understanding
combinations of management control (MC) practices. First, the paper clarifies the meaning of …

What do we know about management control systems and strategy

K Langfield-Smith - Controlling strategy: management …, 2005 - books.google.com
Over the past decade, there has been a massive growth in published research that
investigates the interrelationship between management control systems (MCS) and strategy …