Essays about: "Axel Weckström"

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  1. 1. Making Sense of MCS - a case study on how MCS become enabling or coercive through sensemaking, sensegiving and sensebreaking in a decentralized firm

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Author : Axel Weckström; Love Hultgren; [2017]
    Keywords : Management control systems; Enabling; Coercive; Sensemaking;

    Abstract : How does a management control system (MCS) come to be perceived as enabling or coercive (Ahrens & Chapman, 2004)? Although previous research has shown this to result from how actors make sense of the features of MCS (Englund & Gerdin, 2015), it has disregarded the special role of the middle manager as an intermediary (Floyd & Lane, 2000), channelling control from top management to operational staff. Using the theory of sensemaking (Weick, 1995), we attempt to shed light on this issue through a single case study with two embedded, contrasting cases in two divisions of a decentralized firm, Conglom. READ MORE