Search Results - subject:"Controllers"

The informal liaison role of project controllers in new product development projects

Burnström, Thommie; Jacobsson, Mattias - In: International journal of managing projects in business 6 (2013) 3, pp. 410-424

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Corporate governance and profit manipulation: a French field study

Lambert, Caroline; Sponem, Samuel - HAL - 2005

, management controllers play a central role in profit manipulation. This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of their profit … manipulation is used as a tool by management controllers to gain broader legitimacy within organisations and/or to adopt what they …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791782

The developing role of the financial controller: evidence from the UK

Graham, Alan; Davey-Evans, Susan; Toon, Ian - In: Journal of Applied Accounting Research 13 (2012), pp. 71-88

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the work roles undertaken by financial controllers. The literature … interviews to understand whether financial controllers believe that they could add more value to the organisation and if any … reporting and control, but are supplementary to them. The research also indicates that financial controllers believe that the …

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Improved model‐based control of a six‐degree‐of‐freedom Stewart platform driven by permanent magnet synchronous motors

Meng, Qiang; Zhang, Tao; He, Jingfeng; Song, Jingyan; … - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 39 (2012) 1, pp. 47-56

Purpose – The precise control and dynamic analysis of the electrical Stewart platform have not been so well treated in the literature. This paper aims to design a novel model‐based controller to improve the tracing performance of the electrical Stewart platform. Moreover, the simulations...

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Obstacle‐responsive navigation scheme of a wheeled mobile robot based on look‐ahead control

Yu Lwin, Yu; Yamamoto, Yoshio - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 39 (2012) 3, pp. 282-293

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to design a mobile robot controller which is able to pursue a given goal with obstacle‐avoiding capability in which the two tasks, i.e. aiming at the goal and avoiding obstacles, are fused together in a coherent framework of look‐ahead control method....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014832148

The developing role of the financial controller: evidence from the UK

Graham, Alan; Davey‐Evans, Susan; Toon, Ian - In: Journal of Applied Accounting Research 13 (2012) 1, pp. 71-88

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014837807

Exploring factors affecting the proper use of derivatives : An empirical study with active users and controllers of derivatives

Bezzina, Frank H.; Grima, Simon - In: Managerial Finance 38 (2012) 4, pp. 414-435

, with evidence from active users and controllers of derivatives. Design/methodology/approach – An online panel of 420 users … and controllers of derivatives responded to a self‐report questionnaire that was purposely designed for the present study …

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Exploring factors affecting the proper use of derivatives: An empirical study with active users and controllers of derivatives

Bezzina, Frank H.; Grima, Simon - In: Managerial Finance 38 (2012) March, pp. 414-435

, with evidence from active users and controllers of derivatives. Design/methodology/approach – An online panel of 420 users … and controllers of derivatives responded to a self-report questionnaire that was purposely designed for the present study …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540354

Turnover intention of air traffic controllers in Taiwan: A note

Kuo, Chung-Wei; Jou, Rong-Chang; Lin, Shu-Wun - In: Journal of Air Transport Management 25 (2012) C, pp. 50-52

traffic controllers in Taiwan. In addition, personality traits, gender and marital status are examined as moderators in the … effects on the turnover intention of an air traffic controller. The results show that the turnover intention of controllers … controllers have different effects on job stress. …

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Accounting decentralization and performance evaluation of business unit managers

Indjejikian, J. Raffi; Matĕjka, Michal - In: The accounting review : a publication of the American … 87 (2012) 1, pp. 261-290

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