Essays about: "Personnel controls"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 15 essays containing the words Personnel controls.

1. 6. Management Control Systems in a Corporate Venture Capital Backed Start-up: An Exploration and Exploitation Perspective

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

   Author : Amelia Kreicbergs; Eric Öste; [2016]
   Keywords : Management Control Systems; Corporate Venture Capital; Start-ups; Exploration; Exploitation;

   Abstract : This study was aimed at examining the application of Management Control Systems (MCS) and the learning consequences of these in start-ups. This was done through a single-case study of a Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) investor and its start-up, thus analysing the impact of an external investor previously overlooked in research, which mainly has been confined to Venture Capital (VC) investors. READ MORE

3. 7. The Interrelations of Intrafirm Management Control and Inter-organizational Relationships - A study of sponsorship activities within elite sports clubs

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

   Author : Marcus Kristensson; Gabriel Spetz; [2016]
   Keywords : Management Control; Interfirm Relationships; Intrafirm Management Accounting; Sponsorship Management; Control Package;

   Abstract : This paper adds to the emerging stream of literature on the interrelations between intra- and interfirm management control by looking into how various forms of collaborations influence, and are in turn influenced, by internal management control systems (MCS). We draw theoretically on Merchant & Van der Stede's (2003) result, action, personnel and cultural controls, which are used as a package to analyze mutual influences between the firm and its various collaborations. READ MORE

4. 8. Managing R&D – The eternal dilemma: A study of how control is exercised in R&D operations

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Jonathan Grapne; Sara Edholm; [2015]
   Keywords : R D; Management Control; Innovation; Uncertainty; Behavioural control; Output control; Personnel control; Cultural control;

   Abstract : Managing R&D is not an easy task for organisations to handle as it is often associated with uncertainty and high risk-taking. The purpose of this thesis was therefore to gain a better understanding for how management control is performed in a company’s R&D unit. READ MORE

5. 9. Management control systems for corporate sponsorship - A study of corporations' holistic management of sponsorship

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

   Author : Sarah Ahnström; Sofia Albertsson; [2014]
   Keywords : sponsorship management; sponsorship; sponsoring; management control systems; internal consistency;

   Abstract : Corporate sponsorship continues to experience growth globally. The study investigates corporations' engagement in sports, culture and community related sponsorship from a management control perspective. READ MORE

6. 10. Effects of Planning systems of Universities on Management Control Systems and Organizational Performance : A case study at KTH

   University essay from KTH/Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.)

   Author : W R S M Ubaya Ashandika Higgoda; [2012]
   Keywords : ERP; ERPS; MCS; Cultural controls; Personnel controls; Organizational Performance; Not-for-profit organizations; KTH;

   Abstract : Plannings systems which can be considered as modules of an Enterprise Resource Planning system play a vital role in different types of organizations. The effects of the planning systems towards the Management Control Systems and organizational performance are less investigated in the context of not-for-profit/service providing organizations. READ MORE