Behavioral aspects and attitudes toward the balanced scorecard (BSC) could be a determinant factor in the success of BSC implementation. In the study we examine the match between factors affecting employee buying into the BSC and corporate strategy and whether a fit between them is necessary to...

Firms pursuing different business strategies should align these strategies to incentive design. This study uses both archival and survey data on 110 stores of a Japanese high-end bakery chain to provide empirical evidence that misalignment between an organization's business strategy and...

Objective – The context strategy as process and strategy as content have significant impact to the correlation between strategy and management accounting. In the context strategy as process, this paper aims to investigate the role of management accounting to performance through the choice of...

This paper is based on an analysis of 183 responses from managing directors of small Finnish companies. The study describes the extent to which small Finnish firms have adopted traditional and contemporary MCS practices and how systematically they use the MCS information. Additionally, the use...

We investigate the effect of a corporate culture of sustainability on multiple facets of corporate behavior and performance outcomes. Using a matched sample of 180 companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted environmental and social policies many years ago – termed as High...

Although some view the hiring of interim executives as evidence of poor governance, this practice is becoming increasingly common. Because interims represent 15 to 20 percent of all chief financial officer (CFO) appointments and because CFOs are central to financial reporting and strategic...