This timely and innovative book focuses on budgeting control and ongoing Beyond Budgeting trends and its consequences for the organization.

This book provides basic management knowledge in a clearly structured way. Fundamental aspects of management are described, on the basis of which a model of the enterprise is outlined. This allows readers to find their way around easily, to reflect, then to set new approaches in context and examine them in a critical light. The practical examples, the interpretation questions, and the short case studies at the end of the chapters facilitate the transition from theory to practice.

Adapting To Environmental Challenges: New Research In Strategy And International Business provides new perspectives to understand strategic adaptation in international business contexts based on corporate responsible behavior and cultural sensitivity as the ingredients for agile operations and a resilient multinational organization.

The book “Beyond Strategy: how to compete in dynamic businesses” aims to explore the strategic management field with particular reference to the companies of the new millennium. These are companies that follow new logics and business models. Therefore, it is necessary to revisit existing theories and models, adapting them to new contexts of analysis. The book is divided into 5 chapters. The first chapter introduces the concept of strategy and strategic management, emphasising the matter pertaining strategy formulation. The second chapter shows the importance of strategic analysis for strategic management. Chapter 3 deals with business strategies, i.e. those that can build competitive advantages in a specific business. Furthermore, the chapter offers an economic analysis of competitive advantage. The fourth chapter links business strategies to business models, with emphasis on how companies create, capture and deliver value to customers. Finally, chapter 5 discusses corporate strategies, underlining the concepts of vertical and horizontal integration, outsourcing, and diversification.

"This book explores the culture of modern high-tech workplaces and the different challenges and opportunities that new technologies present for modern workers and employers, reviewing various management practices throughout the world"--Provided by publisher.

Through select contributions, this edited volume presents a current discourse on strategic management specifically through the lens of industry dynamism. It re-examines the enduring call for dynamic strategies and capabilities at the firm and industry level, drawing case studies from a diverse array of geographic locations. Its findings are presented in two succinct sections: “On Dynamic Strategies” and “On Dynamic Capabilities,” which collectively read as a unit.

Whether students pursue a professional career in accounting or in other areas of management, they will interact with accounting systems. In all organizations, managers rely on management accounting systems to provide information to deal with changes in their operating environment. This book provides students and managers with an understanding and appreciation of the strengths and limitations of an organization’s accounting system, and enables them to be intelligent and critical users of the system. The text highlights the role of management accounting as an integral part of the organization’s strategy and not merely a set of individual concepts and computations. An analytical framework for organizational change is used throughout the book to underscore how organizations must adapt to create customer and organizational value. This framework provides a way to examine and analyze the organization’s accounting system, and as a basis for evaluating proposed changes to the system. With international examples that bring the current business environment to the forefront, problems and cases to promote critical thinking, and online support for students and instructors, Management Accounting in a Dynamic Environment is no mere introductory textbook. It prepares readers to use accounting systems intelligently to achieve organizational success. The authors have identified several cases to accompany each chapter in the textbook. These are available through Ivey Publishing: https://www.iveycases.com/CaseMateBookDetail.aspx?id=434