Cover -- HalfTitle -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The accounting heritage -- Corporate epistemology -- Thinking ahead -- Part I -- The Essence of ManagementControl -- Different perspectives -- Understanding performance -- The control concept in management control -- Reports, communication and stakeholders -- Part II -- The essence ofsense-making -- Organisational sense-making -- Organisations as a set of social relations -- Information systems and management control -- Part III -- Individuals and organisations -- Organisational structure
A social perspective -- A decisions context -- Part IV -- Techniques and functions -- Thinking and acting strategically -- Accounting tools -- Information and knowledge -- The performance paradox -- Part V -- ... and beyond -- Understanding processes of organisational sense-making -- Understanding accountability -- Understanding the context -- Literature
Summary
This book centres around three different areas; management control, organisations and information systems