The roles of management control in a product development setting

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The roles of management control in a product development setting

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which management control is enacted in a product development setting, to provide new insights into the different roles that control can play in this context. A nine-month, in-depth field study was carried out at a subsidiary of an Australasian multinational firm which operates in the consumer foods industry. A participant observation approach was used to collect field notes and documents from the organisation, which were analysed through the...

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Date created

2011

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Maguire W / Akroyd, Chris

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https://hdl.handle.net/10092/103595

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Management control / Product development / Ethnomethodology / Uncertainty reduction / Goal congruence / Accounting, Auditing and Accountability / Commerce, management, tourism and services / Accounting, auditing and accountability / Management accounting / Strategy, management and organisational behaviour / Production and operations management

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