This paper shows how certain management controls become more guiding than others in the management of new product development (NPD). We detail how the opportunity space within which managers maneuver NPD can be underpinned by a hierarchically arranged management control infrastructure governed...

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...