Power Control Exchange Framework of Accounting : Applications to Management Control Systems, Hardback Book

Power Control Exchange Framework of Accounting : Applications to Management Control Systems Hardback

Edited by Marc J. Epstein

Part of the Studies in Managerial and Financial Accounting series

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This volume develops and applies a power control exchange framework of accounting that incorporates both the structural-functional (SF) (rational choice model) and the conflict-pluralistic (CP) (political choice model) to study management/organizational control systems as a resource exchange process.

The framework proposes that control as an exchange process depends on two factors: basis of power, classified as SF-rational or CP-political and perceived availability of resources, dichotomized as relative slack or relative scarcity.

The relationship between these two factors yields four types of resource exchange: co-operative, competitive, distributive or unequal.

These resource exchange typologies are discussed and applied to study management accounting/control systems within the context of divisionalized business organizations.

The book concludes with a chronological review of research together with applications for for-profit organizations.

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