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Management Control and Uncertainty

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. David Otley

    1. Lancaster University, UK

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  2. Kim Soin

    1. University of Exeter, UK

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Management Control and Uncertainty

    • David Otley, Kim Soin
    Pages 1-13

  3. Transfer Pricing: Insights from the Empirical Accounting Literature

    • Martine Cools
    Pages 14-29

  4. Management Control Research: A Review of Current Developments

    • Roland Speklé, Anne-Marie Kruis
    Pages 30-46

  5. From Make-or-Buy to Coordinating Collaboration: Management Control in Strategic Alliances

    • Shannon Anderson, Henri Dekker
    Pages 47-68

  6. Researching the Human Side of Management Control: Using Survey-Based Methods

    • Sally Widener
    Pages 69-82

  7. Management Control under Uncertainty: Thinking about Uncertainty

    • David Otley
    Pages 83-96

  8. Managing through Uncertainty

    • Mike Bourne
    Pages 97-113

  9. Uncertainty as a Determinant of Performance Measurement and Compensation Systems: A Review of the Literature

    • Margaret Abernethy, Julia Mundy
    Pages 114-133

  10. Controlling Creativity and Innovation: Paradox or Necessity?

    • Jan Pfister
    Pages 134-148

  11. Managing Management Controls

    • Sophie Tessier
    Pages 149-161

  12. Feel the Risk: Strategic Investment Decisions in an Uncertain World

    • Elaine Harris
    Pages 162-177

  13. Management Control and Uncertainty: Risk Management in Universities

    • Kim Soin, Christian Huber, Sharon Wheatley
    Pages 178-192

  14. Management Control, Regulation and Investment Uncertainty in the UK Electricity Generation Market

    • Liz Warren
    Pages 193-206

  15. Management Control Research and the Management of Uncertainty: Rethinking Knowledge in Management

    • Olivier Saulpic, Philippe Zarlowski
    Pages 207-223

  16. Cultural Theory of Risk and the Notion of “Management Accountants as Strategists”

    • Philip Linsley, Alexander Linsley
    Pages 224-238

  17. The Existential Perversity of Management Accounting and Control

    • Alan Lowe, Ivo De Loo
    Pages 239-254

  18. Middle-Range Thinking and Management Control Systems

    • Jane Broadbent, Richard Laughlin
    Pages 255-268

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 269-277
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About this book

Management Control and Uncertainty recognizes that all control takes place under conditions of uncertainty: it does now, and it always has done. In this edited collection, the contributing authors examine different aspects of management control systems in the modern world whilst paying more explicit attention to the ubiquitous nature of uncertainty

Editors and Affiliations

  • Lancaster University, UK

    David Otley

  • University of Exeter, UK

    Kim Soin

About the editors

David Otley is Distinguished Professor of Accounting and Management (Emeritus) at Lancaster University Management School, UK. His research interests include management control systems, behavioural aspects of management accounting, managerial performance evaluation and performance-related pay.

Kim Soin is Associate Professor of Accounting and Management and Director of Postgraduate Research Students at the University of Exeter Business School, UK. Her current research focuses on the UK financial sector and the effects of the financial crisis in 2007–2009; how to improve corporate governance and rebuild trust and reputation in banks and regulators; risk management regulatory systems and the effects of marketization and (de)regulation in UK universities.

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