The Role of Management Accounting Systems in Strategic Sensemaking

• Main Author: Heidmann, Marcus (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2008.
• Subjects: Business.; Accounting.; Bookkeeping.; Business and Management.; Accounting/Auditing.

In order to survive in a competitive environment, top and middle managers need to make sense of strategic issues. Information from the internal and external environment helps managers to relate the firm's strengths and weaknesses to specific opportunities and threats embedded in these issues. M...

Table of Contents:

• Theoretical Foundation
• Management Accounting Systems and Strategic Sensemaking
• Research Design
• Results of Case Study Research
• Implications and Outlook.