Strategy, Control and Competitive Advantage Case Study Evidence /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jannesson, Erik (Editor), Nilsson, Fredrik (Editor), Rapp, Birger (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Management for Professionals,
• Subjects: Business.; Management.; Leadership.; Organization.; Planning.; Business and Management.; Business Strategy/Leadership.

How should firms’ control systems be designed and used to formulate and implement strategies that will contribute to competitive advantage and sustained high performance? This book offers some thought-provoking suggestions.   It contains empirical studies of such diverse manufacturing enterprises as...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction to the cases: Theories, concepts and models
• 2 Driving Strategic change at Saab AB: The use of new control practices
• 3 How management control affects the implementation of strategies in a decentralized organization: Focus on formal and informal control in the case of Atlas Copco
• 4 Success through consistent strategy: How does Scania's management control matter ?.- 5 Changing strategies and control systems at a German insurance company
• 6 Strategy, management control and organizational design: Empirical illustrations from SCA Packaging
• 7 Linking Strategy and inter-organizational relationship: The case of Volvo and Scania
• 8 The role of IT systems in the strategy process: The case of Electrolux
• 9 Fundings, strategies and management control systems: Empirical evidence from two chamber orchestras
• 10 Conclusions and implications.