Essays about: "enabling and coercive control"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words enabling and coercive control.
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1. A New Landscape for Management Control: Managers Reaching a Balance of Remote Work in a Post-Pandemic Era
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : In recent years organisations have faced the COVID-19 pandemic, which entailed extensive restrictions and lockdowns around the world. The new challenges have created new patterns for organisations to work after the pandemic and remote work has been implemented. The overall usage of remote work is applied to various extents in organisations. READ MORE
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2. Integration and Implementation of Sustainability into Practice
University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : 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
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3. Caring by sharing: A single case study on the implications of horizontal information systems for public sector accountability
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansieringAbstract : This paper aims to examine how accountability forms and conceptions are affected by the implementation of a horizontal information system in a public healthcare organization. Drawing on a qualitative case study of the healthcare organization of a mid-sized Swedish local government region, in which the analysis is framed by Adler and Borys' (1996) framework of enabling and coercive control, we contribute to the rather scarce literature on public sector digitalization and accountability in three main ways. READ MORE
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4. Management control mechanisms in a private equity buy-and-build investment
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansieringAbstract : 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
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5. 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 institutionenAbstract : 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
