This research aims to shed light on the formulation of returns management strategies and to identify key returns management components in developing more effective returns management strategies. Anchored in supply chain orientation and supply chain alignment research, we use a multiple...

Strategic Management Control in Theory and Practice -- Illustrating an Organisation's Strategy as a Map -- Painting the Relevant Organisation -- Planning for Control and Evaluation -- Strategic Pricing: The Relationship Between Strategy, Price Models and Product Cost -- Controlling and Being...

This book is about competitive advantage and how it is created at the company level. It is based on the premise that the alignment of strategies and control systems affects the firm's chances of successfully positioning itself in its chosen arena of competition

1 Introduction to the cases: Theories, concepts and models -- 2 Driving Strategic change at Saab AB: The use of new control practices -- 3 How management control affects the implementation of strategies in a decentralized organization: Focus on formal and informal control in the case of Atlas...