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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Management accounting and control systems."”.
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An exploratory study of management accounting and control systems in a developing country
… banks in Nigeria. The study focuses how management accounting and control systems (MCS) operate in the four banks. The study is motivated by the dearth of literature on management accounting practices in the developing world in general and in Nigeria in specific. The case study approach …
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Post-Acquisition Management Accounting and Control Systems in an Islamic Bank: An Institutional Logics Perspective.
This thesis seeks to understand Management Accounting and Control Systems (MACS) in an Islamic bank after it had been acquired by a conventional bank in Kuwait. In particular, there was a concern of losing the religious identity and legitimacy in the Islamic bank, in respect to the stakeholders …
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Context and change in management accounting and control systems: A case study of Telecom Fiji Limited
This thesis aims to contribute to research in management accounting and control systems (MACS) in a developing country context: that of Fiji. It seeks to gain a theoretical understanding of how MACS reflect the social and political contexts in which they operate by using a case study of Telecom …
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The Design and Use of Management Accounting and Control Systems in Saudi Arabian Family Businesses: A Weberian Perspective of Accounting
The study focuses on how management accounting and control systems (MACS) are designed and used in four non-listed family businesses (FBs) in developing countries context i.e. Saudi Arabia. Drawing upon Weber’s work (1947, 1968, 1978) on ‘rational capital accounting’, ‘bureaucracy’ and ‘traditional …
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An Empirical Investigation of Management Accounting and Control Systems Change in Two Libyan State-owned Manufacturing Companies: An Institutional Perspective
… companies in Libya. The study focuses on management accounting and control system (MACS) changes within the two companies. The study is motivated by the paucity of literature on management accounting practices in the developing countries in general and in Libya in particular. The case …
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Employing Actor Network Theory to Explore the Role of Management Control Systems in New Product Development Projects
… socio-technical factors that influence the role and use of control systems in New Product Development (NPD) settings. The purpose of the dissertation is to explore the socio-technical micro-foundations underpinning the influence of management accounting and control systems in NPD contexts. In …
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Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Explaining the relation between management control systems and managers' causal mental models
Research into the cognitive effects of management accounting and control systems is largely oriented toward understanding how decision makers use accounting information to inform their judgement and decision making activity. However, the effect of these systems on decision making is not limited to …
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Organisational change and the introduction of activity based costing in a UK clearing bank
… banks over the last fifteen years. It draws from and informs organisational change processes to help understand the effects of environmental disturbance, that is, the changes in the regulatory framework. The effect of environmental disturbance is assessed in terms of the levels and impacts of the …