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Contextual Influences on Evaluative Style and its Effectiveness: Three Avenues for Future Research

Noeverman, Noeverman, J.; Koene, Koene, B.A.S. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

control towards a broad array of information, (2) recognize the importance of organizational context and control system design …

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Accounting as Applied Ethics: Teaching a Discipline

Dolfsma, Wilfred - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

In this article it is argued that there are notable parallels between all of the different strands within ethics on the one hand, and accountancy on the other that, in teaching, can be drawn upon to enhance students’ understanding of the latter. Accountancy, part of economics, draws on...

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Accounting for the alignment of interest and commitment in interfirm transactional relationships

Vosselman, E.G.J.; van der Meer-Kooistra, J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

Control in interfirm transactional relationships has, inter alia, the purpose of mitigating potential opportunistic … behaviour. For an individual actor the power-base to exercise control over the (output of) the behaviour of another actor in the … relationship is a contractual arrangement. From a contractual perspective control systems are designed, thus providing contractual …

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Why Do European Venture Capital Companies Syndicate?

Manigart, Manigart, S.; Bruining, Bruining, J.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

Financial theory, resource-based theory and access to deal flow are used to explain syndication practices among European venture capital (VC) firms. The desire to share risk and increase portfolio diversification is a more important motive for syndication than the desire to access additional...

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The Impact of Business Ownership Change on Employee Relations: Buy-outs in the UK and the Netherlands

wright, mike; Bruining, Bruining, J.; Boselie, Boselie, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

A buy-out is a fundamental change in the structure of ownership that may affect the way employee relations develop within an organisation. Little is known about the impact of buyouts upon employee relations. This paper aims to address this gap. We focus on two main questions. First, what are the...

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Management Control Systems and Strategy Change in Buyouts

wright, mike; Bruining, Bruining, J.; Bonnet, M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

The impact of management buy-outs (MBO) on strategy and management control systems (MCS) is little understood. Previous … research by Jones (1992) focused on efficiency-enhancing buy-outs that were a feature of the early development of the market …, diagnostic and interactive control systems to extend Jones' study to these newer forms of MBO. Within-case analysis and cross …

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Internationalization Of Management Buyouts

wright, mike; Lockett, Lockett, A.; Westhead, Westhead, P. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

more likely to be exporters. Firms focusing upon product/ service quality and financial efficiency and those with high …

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Entrepreneurial Orientation In Management Buy-Outs And The Contribution Of Venture Capital

wright, mike; Bruining, Bruining, J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

This paper focuses on the development of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) after a management buy-out (MBO) and on the role played by venture capital firms in enhancing EO. It presents results of two exploratory case studies of divisional buy-outs with regard to their EO and the areas where the...

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Entrepreneurship by Alliance

Krug, Krug, B.; Mehta, J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001

Recent years have seen the introduction of markets and a system of private property rights in China with a view to changing the composition of production and demand and enhancing welfare. Central to the success of these reforms is the rise of entrepreneurship with its potential to set the...

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The Management of Innovation in Project Based Firms

Keegan, Keegan, A.; Turner, Turner, J.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2000

Innovation is an important area of management theory, but there is a paucity of research on innovation in project based firms. Project based firms are simultaneously becoming a more vital and important organisational context, exemplifying many current managerial challenges. In this paper we...

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