This chapter discusses the relationship between management control and time in organizations. Based on a literature review, we suggest that management control is, to an important extent, the control of organizational time. We show how different forms of control affect the temporal structures of...

Several studies in management control have drawn upon the concepts of coercive and enabling forms of bureaucracy (Adler and Borys 1996) to discuss how the features of a control system may affect employees' attitudes towards control. This question is relevant because enabling forms of control...