Executive Summary |
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Part 1 The Uses of and Attitudes to Budgeting |
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3 | (14) |
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3 | (1) |
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2 Public Sector Budgeting |
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4 | (1) |
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3 Emergence of Budgetary Control in the Private Sector |
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5 | (2) |
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4 Feedback Control and Flexible Budgets |
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7 | (1) |
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5 Responsibility Accounting |
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8 | (2) |
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10 | (2) |
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12 | (1) |
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8 The Take-up of Budgetary Control |
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13 | (2) |
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15 | (2) |
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17 | (22) |
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17 | (1) |
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2 Recognition of Behavioural Problems in Budgeting |
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18 | (1) |
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3 Argyris's Study: Budget Pressure and Human Consequences |
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19 | (2) |
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4 The `Budget-Constrained' Style: Hopwood's and Otley's Studies |
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21 | (2) |
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5 Budget Targets: Can They Be Set `Correctly'? |
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23 | (2) |
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25 | (2) |
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27 | (2) |
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8 The `Beyond Budgeting' Critique and Prognosis |
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29 | (4) |
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33 | (3) |
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36 | (3) |
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39 | (26) |
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39 | (1) |
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2 The Survey Questionnaire |
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39 | (1) |
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3 Comparison of Responses from Financial and Non-financial Managers |
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40 | (1) |
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41 | (1) |
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42 | (4) |
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6 Changes in the Budgeting Process |
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46 | (2) |
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7 Exploration of the Data Using Factor Analysis |
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48 | (5) |
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8 Correlation Between the Uses and Consequences of Budgets and Contingent Variables |
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53 | (4) |
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9 Further Analysis of Correlation Between Variables |
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57 | (1) |
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10 Contingency Relationships |
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58 | (1) |
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11 Budgeting in the Twenty-First Century |
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59 | (6) |
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Part 2 Budgets and Organisational Structure |
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65 | (22) |
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65 | (1) |
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2 The Growing Organisation: Departmentalisation |
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66 | (2) |
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3 Mechanistic Versus Organic Structures: Environmental Uncertainty |
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68 | (3) |
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4 Pooled, Sequential and Reciprocal Structures: Technology |
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71 | (3) |
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5 Controlling the Organisation: Matching Structure and Control to Function |
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74 | (2) |
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6 Summary: Structure and Control in the Unitary Organisation |
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76 | (1) |
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7 The Very Large Organisation: Decentralisation |
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76 | (4) |
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8 Contemporary Organisations |
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80 | (2) |
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82 | (2) |
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84 | (3) |
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5 Structure, Strategy and Control |
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87 | (16) |
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87 | (1) |
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2 Control Systems Theory: Hierarchies, Markets and Clans |
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88 | (3) |
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3 Control Systems in Context |
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91 | (5) |
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96 | (2) |
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5 Simons `Levers of Control' |
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98 | (4) |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (28) |
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103 | (1) |
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104 | (4) |
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3 Products, Customers and Competitors |
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108 | (2) |
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110 | (5) |
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115 | (4) |
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6 Overview and Attitudes to Budgeting |
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119 | (5) |
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7 Conclusions from the Field Study and the Survey |
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124 | (2) |
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8 Implications for the `Beyond Budgeting' and Traditional Literatures |
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126 | (2) |
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9 Lessons from the Field Study |
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128 | (3) |
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131 | (20) |
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131 | (1) |
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2 Structures and Budgets in the Profit Centres |
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131 | (7) |
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138 | (5) |
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4 Interdependence, Structure and Budgets |
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143 | (3) |
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146 | (1) |
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6 Implications for the `Beyond Budgeting' Debate |
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147 | (4) |
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8 Designing Structure and Control Systems |
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151 | (18) |
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151 | (1) |
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152 | (6) |
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3 Lessons from the Field Study and the Finrock Case: Structure |
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158 | (3) |
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4 Lessons from the Survey and the Finrock Case: Coordination and Control |
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161 | (2) |
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163 | (2) |
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6 Suggestions for Further Research |
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165 | (4) |
Appendix 1 The Survey: Descriptive Statistics |
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169 | (40) |
Appendix 2 The Structured Interview Guide |
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209 | (2) |
References |
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211 | (6) |
Index |
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