Essays about: "Management Accounting Innovations"

Found 5 essays containing the words Management Accounting Innovations.

1. 1. Motivational Drivers for Early Adoption of Management Accounting Innovations among Incompatible Organisations: When Organisational Culture and Innovation Characteristics Do Not Fit

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Josefin Andersson; Hannes Larsson; [2018-07-02]
   Keywords : Adoption; Early adoption; Diffusion; Management accounting innovations; Balanced Scorecard; New-institutional theory; Incompatibility; Organisational culture; Innovation-decision process;

   Abstract : Previous research has not been able to uncover what motivates incompatible organisations to adopt a management accounting innovation (MAI) in the early stages. In this study we investigate early adoption and the motivational drivers among four organisations that, by not having the same values and beliefs as those inherent in the MAI, are considered to be incompatible. READ MORE

3. 2. Disruptive Forces Afoot : Prospective Conundrums for Management Consulting - An Explorative Study of Disruptions within the Swedish Industry

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : David Fhürong; Jonathan Rex; [2015]
   Keywords : Management consulting; Disruptive innovation theory; Professional services; Big data analytics; Consolidation; Diversification; Client-targeting; Big Four; MBB Big Three ;

   Abstract : We examine the influence of disruptive forces and innovations on the role of management consultants; specifically how the practitioners themselves interpret changes in fundamental conditions for their profession, later analyzed through the lens of the disruptive innovation theory. With the help of in-depth interviews limited to the Swedish consulting industry, the Big Three traditional strategy consulting firms and the Big Four accounting firms are included in the study, with the aim to study the possible differences in the effect on and reaction from these firms. READ MORE

4. 3. Sustainability integration in Innovation strategies - An analysis of sustainability aspects in Swedish innovation strategies and in Swedish healthcare sector innovation activities

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

   Author : Erika Olsson; [2014]
   Keywords : Innovation; Sustainability; Healthcare; Environmental policy integration; Transition management; Social Sciences; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : The healthcare sector, currently accounting for about seven percent of global GDP expenditure, faces growing demand pressures driven by factors such as ageing populations and growing prevalence of chronic diseases. Consequently, the sector is increasingly looking for innovations that can simultaneously improve the efficiency and quality of care. READ MORE

5. 4. Evaluation of the success of management accounting innovations -A study of the use of the balanced scorecard

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Charlotte Löjdqvist; Sanna Gustavsson; [2013-06-26]
   Keywords : Management Accounting Innovations; The Balanced Scorecard; evaluation; ;

   Abstract : Background and problem: The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) was developed with intentions to provide a more balanced management in organisations. Since its invention in the 1990s, this management accounting innovation (MAI) has gained a large acceptance in both research and practice and been adopted by both public and private organisations. READ MORE

6. 5. Stockholm's Corporate Information Services' Adaptability to Digitalization

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Lavinia Bleoca; [2009]
   Keywords : innovation; management; digitalization; resource-based view; Profitability; dot-com crisis; data analysis and web hosting; media convergence; media fragmentation; Social and economic history; Ekonomisk och social historia; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : Nine Stockholm-based joint-stock data analysis and web hosting companies are hereby united in an external financial analysis, ranging from 1998 to 2007. The main contributions to the body of knowledge comprise observations regarding the companies’ management efficiency and their survival of “the dot-com crisis”. READ MORE