When setting budgets, managers may place constraints on how resources can be used in an effort to mitigate …

When setting budgets, managers may place constraints on how resources can be used in an effort to mitigate …

positive effects that budgetary constraints can have on creativity.Design/methodology/approach: Using Elster's (2000 …) in the creative process and in terms of the ability of the constraints to channel creativity in certain directions, thus … preventing the availability of too many options from hampering the creative process.Originality/value: The paper contributes to …

creative firms being mainly characterized by expected creativity use their budgets in a more interactive way. In creative firms … in which responsive creativity is most important, the budgets are used in a rather diagnostic way. This study makes an …In this paper, we examine the role of budgets, as a central instrument within the management control system, in a …