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Corporate social responsibility and management control
Mersereau, Alexander; Mottis, Nicolas - HAL - 2011
This paper focuses on the management control processes associated with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues management in organisations. Following a review of the literature related to management control and CSR, we use a case example of a leading European insurance company to explore...
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A New Metaphor for Understanding Management Control Practices
Chatelain-Ponroy, Stéphanie - HAL - 2010
Many researchers in management use metaphorical representations of organisations. Some even go so far as to assert that all modelling of organisations uses an implicit metaphor. The role of metaphors within the theory of organisations is didactic, cognitive and theoretical, allowing us a better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789120
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Management Control and the Museums
Chatelain-Ponroy, Stéphanie - HAL - 2001
an increasing need for more rigorous management whereby managers are given the means to establish new relations, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791497
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The Evolution of Cost Control Systems: a Cultural Phenomenon
Burlaud, Alain; Simon, Claude - HAL - 2004
This paper only aims at stimulating research and debate, starting from two ideas:• historically, cost control systems have undergone major changes by integrating an increasing level of instability;• the same pattern of evolution can be found in other areas.Evolutions seem to have gone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792765
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Comment se positionner en tant que client préférentiel auprès de ses principaux fournisseurs sur la famille d'achats des composants électroniques LEDs ?
Coste, Richard - HAL - 2013
Ce mémoire a pour objectif de définir une démarche permettant à toute entreprise de se positionner en tant que client préférentiel auprès de ses fournisseurs. Cette notion de client préférentiel fut durant de nombreuses années étudiée de façon unilatérale par une approche marketing...
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Artificial Scarcity, Power, and the Italian Mafia
Champeyrache, Clotilde - HAL - 2013
This paper contributes to an institutional theory of crime. More specifically, it focuses on the problem of the Mafia and the infiltration of legitimate businesses. In legal markets, the Mafia resorts to artificial scarcity as a functioning principle. Although scarcity and its consequences for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821497
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Measuring Power and Satisfaction in Societies with Opinion Leaders
Brink, René Van Den; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Steffen, Frank - HAL - 2013
Opinion leaders are actors who have some power over their followers as they are able to influence their followers … opinion leaders. We introduced a power and a satisfaction score and studied some common properties. In this paper we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898344
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Sociology and political science in the patrimonial society: implications of Piketty's Capital
Bonnet, Francois; Théry, Clément - HAL - 2014
What are the implications of Piketty's Capital for sociology and political science? Capital's argument focuses on the evolution of the r/g ratio (capital returns over growth rate) and outlines two modes of economic inequalities. One is characteristic of affluent (g r) societies and the other is...
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Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences
Rustichini, Aldo; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2012
, norms that appear abstract and universal take into account the bargaining power of the two sides. The strong side bends the … norm in its favor and the weak side agrees : Stated fairness is a compromise with power. Second, in most situations … principles to actions is mainly the fact of individuals who behave more selfishly and who have a stronger bargaining power. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899809
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Measuring Power and Satisfaction in Societies with Opinion Leaders
Brink, René Van Den; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Steffen, Frank - HAL - 2013
Opinion leaders are actors who have some power over their followers as they are able to influence their followers … opinion leaders. We introduced a power and a satisfaction score and studied some common properties. In this paper we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784095