The Application of the Controllability Principle and Managers’ Responses A Role Theory Perspective /

• Main Author: Fischer, Franz Michael (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2010.
• Subjects: Business.; Accounting.; Bookkeeping.; Leadership.; Business and Management.; Business Strategy/Leadership.; Accounting/Auditing.

In recent works on the design of management control systems, interest in the controllability principle has seen a revival. Franz Michael Fischer investigates the effects of the principle’s application on managers’ responses. The author further explores the impact of several important contextual fact...

Table of Contents:

• Literature Review on the Controllability Principle
• to Role Theory
• Development of the Causal Models
• Development of the Research Design
• Empirical Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion.