The relationship between management control system (MCS) and strategy has been widely discussed in literature but traditional studies on the fit between MCS and strategy assume that MCS must be designed to conform with a previously welldefined strategy. In this paper we adopt the idea that...

In this paper we discuss the Management Control Systems (MCSs)–strategy relationship in the light of an empirical analysis. We debate the attention to the fit of MCS and strategy at given moments in time which is typical of a contingency approach, and we search for an understanding of the...

The issue of cost calculation has been largely debated in the last years under the pressure of the perceived lost of relevance of the so called "traditional cost accounting approaches". The enthusiasm for new management accounting techniques has often driven most of attention towards technical...

Rispetto agli studi sulle "nuove" pratiche di <i>costing</i> la dottrina italiana ed internazionale ha rivolto molta attenzione agli aspetti tecnici e teorici dei modelli. Tuttavia tale dibattito non si è esteso con uguale intensità al processo di diffusione di tali tecniche innovative nel lungo...