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This volume covers such topics as prior evidence on corporate annual reports, research methodology and the demographics of the corporate shareholder, investors' investment objectives and their information sources, and the readership and usefulness of corporate financial statements.

The world is beset with enormous problems. And as a nonprofit, NGO, foundation, impact investor, or socially responsible company, your organization is on a mission to solve them. But what exactly should you do? And how will you know whether it's working? Too many people assume that good intentions will result in meaningful actions and leave it at that. But thanks to Marc Epstein and Kristi Yuthas, social impact can now be evaluated with the sa...

This volume contains exemplary papers that were presented at the 2017 Conference on Performance Measurement and Management Control in Nice, France, by researchers in the field from North America, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.

An insiders' account of failed efforts to control corporate misconduct-and a forceful plan to do so.Nothing anyone has done in the past 50 years has stopped, or even slowed, corporate misconduct. Business schools have required courses on ethics, regulators have implemented laws and levied fines, and journalists have exposed the scandals named names, yet misconduct continues. Why? Is it simply the case of a few bad apples? Or maybe it's a bad o...

An insiders' account of failed efforts to control corporate misconduct-and a forceful plan to do so.¿Nothing anyone has done in the past 50 years has stopped, or even slowed, corporate misconduct. Business schools have required courses on ethics, regulators have implemented laws and levied fines, and journalists have exposed the scandals named names, yet misconduct continues. Why? Is it simply the case of a few bad apples? Or maybe it's a bad ...

For some [dominant visionaries], too much interference will stifle their ambition. For others, not interfering might allow them to go haywire and destroy the company. The Brilliant Jerk Conundrum shows how to tell the difference and what to do about it."-Srikant M. Datar, professor and senior associate dean at Harvard Business School and member of four boards"In my 50 years as an executive and board member in Silicon Valley, I interacted with ...

For some [dominant visionaries], too much interference will stifle their ambition. For others, not interfering might allow them to go haywire and destroy the company. The Brilliant Jerk Conundrum shows how to tell the difference and what to do about it." -Srikant M. Datar, professor and senior associate dean at Harvard Business School and member of four boards"In my 50 years as an executive and board member in Silicon Valley, I interacted with...

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Features articles on directions in management accounting research, profit impact of value chain reconfiguration blending strategic cost management (SCM) and action-profit-linkage (APL) perspectives, the measurement gap in paying for performance, cost accounting practices used in advanced manufacturing environments, and more.

* This important guide helps orient new members who are serving (or have been asked to serve) on nonprofit boards. * Written from a business perspective, this book also helps nonprofit professionals understand where new board members are coming from and how they can best work with them.

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 ...

Advances in Management Accounting publishes thoughtful, well-developed articles across a broad spectrum of current topics in the field of management accounting, using a variety of research methods including survey research, field tests, corporate case studies and modeling. Volume 26 exemplifies the broad scope of Advances in Management Accounting, examining a number of areas within management accounting.

This annual publication is devoted to the advancement of ethics research and education in the profession and practice of accounting. It aims to advance innovative and applied ethics research in all accounting-related disciplines on a global basis and to improve ethics education in the field.

A book for managers grounded in the best academic and managerial research. A practical guide describing the steps for identifying, measuring and improving social impact. With numerous examples of actual organizational approaches, research into more than fifty organizations, and extensive practical guidance and best practices, it fills a critical gap.

Contains a compendium of some of the papers presented at a workshop on Performance Measurement and Management Control: Superior Organizational Performance in September, 2003. The contents of this book represent a collection of research in management control and performance measurement and provide a contribution to the literature in the area.

Advances in Management Accounting publishes well-developed articles on a variety of current topics in management accounting that are relevant to researchers in both practice and academe. As one of the premier management accounting research journals, Advances in Management Accounting is well poised to meet the needs of management accounting scholars. Volume 23 of Advances in Management Accounting features articles on: The Sociological Approache...

Features articles on various topics in management accounting that are relevant to researchers in both practice and academe. This volume contains articles on innovation strategy and the use of performance measures, performance effects of financial incentives, and evaluating product mix and capital budgeting decisions.

Provides articles on a variety of topics in management accounting that are relevant to researchers in both practice and academe. This book features articles on such topics as quality-based incentives in measuring non-financial performance of healthcare industry, revenue drivers in the accounting literature, and many others.

Advances in Management Accounting" (AIMA) publishes well-developed articles on a variety of current topics in management accounting that are relevant to both practitioners and academicians. As a respected professional journal, AIMA is well poised to meet their information needs. Featured in recent volumes are articles on the practice and research of management accounting in the new century, the creation of customer value and outside-in cost, t...

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