Strategic Management Control

Strategic Management Control
Author: Fredrik Nilsson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030386406

Strategic management control differs from traditional management control in several important respects. First, it supports both strategy formulation and strategy implementation. Second, it is to a large extent based on non-financial information. Third, it deals with both the long and short term and supports not only tactical, but also strategic and operational decision-making. Fourth, and perhaps most importantly, strategic management control is designed for, and adapted to, each organisation’s unique strategies. In this context, the book emphasises the importance of dialogues. The authors argue that it is unwise to assume that decisions taken at the top of the organisation will automatically be executed and obeyed throughout the organisation. Instead, they highlight the importance of dialogue and collaboration, both between hierarchical levels within the organisation and between actors in the network. Such communication is essential to making management control processes both strategic and successful. The book follows a clear structure, from the design of strategies to the everyday evaluation and discussion of performance and results. Though primarily intended for professionals working in strategy and management control at organisations, it will also benefit students and academics interested in strategy and management control.

Playing to Win

Playing to Win
Author: Alan G. Lafley
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 142218739X

Explains how companies must pinpoint business strategies to a few critically important choices, identifying common blunders while outlining simple exercises and questions that can guide day-to-day and long-term decisions.

Management Control Function

Management Control Function
Author: Piers Anthony
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1988-06-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780071032018

Anthony defines management control as the process by which managers influence members of the organization to implement corporate strategies. Relationships among strategic planning, management control, & task control are outlined, but the book's primary focus is on the system that facilitates management control. Areas covered include: the influence of corporate structure & culture on management control systems; the process of controlling ongoing operations; the management control of products; the design & installation of information systems.

Linking Strategic Planning and Management Control

Linking Strategic Planning and Management Control
Author: Diane R. Traugh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1984
Genre: Management
ISBN:

The purpose of this research is to review and integrate the literature describing the relationship between the strategic planning process and the management control process. The assumption made is that neither the strategic planning process for the management control process are achieved is isolation form each other. Elements or dimensions of each process must exist on a common ground and serve as integrating mechanisms between the two processes. The focus of the thesis is to identify the common elements or dimensions. The tool for implementing strategic planning decisions is the management control system. The management control systems will be effective is expectations are clearly communicated, managers are motivated toward the organization's goals, and the system effectively monitors how appropriate the strategies continue to be. Essentially, good management produces an integrated planning-controlling system in an organization. The literature suggests that those managers who understand how to integrate the planning and controlling processes produce better performance. (Author).

The Systems Thinking Approach to Strategic Planning and Management

The Systems Thinking Approach to Strategic Planning and Management
Author: Stephen Haines
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2000-06-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1420025694

Easy-to-follow and understand, The Systems Thinking Approach to Strategic Planning and Management presents the first practical application of "systems thinking", a concept first introduced by Peter Senge in the Fifth Discipline as a new, better and elegantly simple A-B-C approach to strategic management, planning, and change. It provides a unique S

Strategic Management

Strategic Management
Author: Abbass Alkhafaji
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135186367

Airborne Express, Hershey's, Motorola, Pillsburyhow do the executives of international corporations formulate effective strategies for corporate success? Filled with helpful insights into the state of the art in strategic management, this book provides a framework for the formulation, implementation, and control of strategies for all types of domestic and global organizations. You'll also find 21 suggested corporate cases for analysis (complete with reference sources), including Blockbuster Video, PepsiCo, Harley-Davidson, Nike, Home Depot, and Microsoft. This up-to-date volume gives you a comprehensive overview of strategic management in an easy-to-read format. It addresses important current issues, such as TQM (Total Quality Management), reengineering, benchmarking, and the formulation of strategic management in international markets. Strategic Management: Formulation, Implementation, and Control in a Dynamic Environment is a part of The Haworth Press, Inc. promotion book series edited by Richard Alan Nelson, Ph.D., APR. Here is a small sample of what Strategic Management: Formulation, Implementation, and Control in a Dynamic Environment will teach you about: the definition, meaning, and history of strategic management the difference between business policy and business strategy corporate structure, governance, and culture mission statements how to assess the corporate/business environmentinternal, external, and macro how to formulate an effective business strategy strategic alternativesspecialization, diversification, alliances, joint ventures, acquisitions, and more dealing with foreign governments and competing on a global scale the role of the general manager and the board of directors the control process and ways to measure the financial soundness of strategic decisions management techniques for not-for-profit companies Strategic Management: Formulation, Implementation, and Control in a Dynamic Environment is an ideal reference for any teacher, student, or professional in the management arena.

From Strategic Planning to Strategic Management

From Strategic Planning to Strategic Management
Author: H. Igor Ansoff
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1976
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Monograph of articles on strategic management techniques - covers the study of organizational goals, the personal development of the strategic manager and his recruitment, management development and placement, etc., and includes case studies of strategic management in Hungary, Japan, etc. Diagrams and references.

Management Control Theory

Management Control Theory
Author: A.J. Berry
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2019-05-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429749317

First published in 1998, this volume of readings provides an overview of the development of the study of Management Control theory over the past 35 years. The period encompasses the publication of a major and seminal text by Anthony and Dearden in 1965, which acted as a touchstone in defining the range and scope of management control systems. This laid management control’s foundations in accounting-based mechanisms of control, an element which has been seen as both a strength and a constraint. A good deal of work has followed, providing both a development of the tradition as well as a critique. In this volume we attempt to provide a range of readings which will illustrate the variety of possibilities that are available to researchers, scholars and practitioners in the area. The readings illustrate the view that sees control as goal directed and integrative. They go on to explore the idea of control as adaption, consider its relationship with social structure and survey the effects of the interplay between the organisation and the environment. The essays included are not intended to lead the reader through a well-ordered argument which concludes with a well reasoned view of how management control should be. Instead it seeks to illustrate the many questions which have been posed but not answered and to open up agendas for future research.