Essays about: "Enabling controls"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 essays containing the words Enabling controls.

1. 1. Integration and Implementation of Sustainability into Practice

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Josefin Söderlund; Christoph Welter; [2023]
   Keywords : Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility CSR ; Strategic change; Management Control Systems MCS ; Formal and informal controls; Simons’ Levers of Control LOC ; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Purpose - This thesis examines MCS in Swedish companies. The purpose of the thesis is to assess formal and informal controls to understand how companies use them to effectively integrate a sustainability strategy in their organisation and implement CSR activities into practice. READ MORE

3. 2. Management control mechanisms in a private equity buy-and-build investment

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

   Author : Julius Tärning; Sebastian Gerell; [2023]
   Keywords : Management control mechanisms; Buy-and-build; Coercive; Enabling; Private equity;

   Abstract : With the aim of contributing to the management control literature within private equity ("PE"), this paper investigates the management control mechanisms ("MCMs") implemented in a PE investment with a buy-and-build ("B&B") strategy by utilising a single case study. The case company is a fast-growing acquirer of entrepreneur-led companies which operate fairly autonomously, hence leading to a constant balancing act between controlling the discourse whilst simultaneously enabling action. READ MORE

4. 3. Stuck in translation: Why public agencies seldom succeed implementing performance budgeting : A case study on output controls of the Swedish Armed Forces

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Andreas Egevad; [2023]
   Keywords : management accounting; public sector agencies; performance budgeting; efficiency; multiple institutional logics; sociology of translation; trust;

   Abstract : Despite its benefits, output controls are less prevalent than its counterpart input controls in public sector agencies. Performance budgeting aligns the input of resources with the output of products and services systematically, enabling assessment of the efficiency and effectiveness of organizational activities. READ MORE

5. 4. Impact of Performance Measurement System on Employees’ Motivation and Work Effort in Organizations Offering Non-Incentivized Compensation Scheme: The Case of Banking Sector

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Alivija Kovalova; Alina Romanyceva; [2023]
   Keywords : PMS; Enabling and Coercive Control; Autonomous and Controlled Motivation; Work effort; Banking sector; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The study has two purposes: in the setup of heavily regulated industry (banking) and non-incentivized compensation scheme, (1) to investigate separately bankers’ enabling and coercive perceptions of PMS and how they contribute to motivation and work effort; and (2) to explore to what extent the combination of enabling and coercive perceptions of PMS influences motivation and work effort. The study was based on the online questionnaire, which was distributed using convenience and snowball sampling techniques (N=105). READ MORE

6. 5. The Functional Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in Antisocial Personality Disorder

   University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

   Author : Carina Johansson; [2022]
   Keywords : antisocial personality disorder; prefrontal cortex; functional magnetic resonance imaging;

   Abstract : Patients with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) are deceptive, apathetic, and impulsive. Their social behavior is often inappropriate, and they fail to follow social norms, leading to frequent criminal behavior. READ MORE