Organisational Learning And Management Accounting Systems

Increasingly a corporation's competitive advantage is synonymous with its capacity for organisational learning. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Victorian local government where the State Government replaced councillors with commissioners, introduced compulsory competitive tendering, amalgamated councils and enforced efficient management.

Discusses the organizational processes and structural barriers to the diffusion and adoptions of innovations. This book addresses the organizational learning strategies of adoption and diffusion of process innovation approaches. It also presents the theoretical framework of organizational learning and process innovations.

Marcus Heidmann explores the role of management accounting systems (MAS) in strategic sensemaking. Based on cognitive theories, the author defines strategic sensemaking as a learning process with observation, interpretation, and communication as the relevant process steps on the individual level. He illustrates the impact of MAS on these cognitive processes by an exploratory multiple-case study design.

This text applies sociological approaches to organizational change and development to explain process innovation and diffusion in internal auditing and management accounting systems. It integrates the study of TQM and reengineering into management accounting, internal auditing and control systems.

Every manager is responsible for cost and performance management in one form or another. This book provides an unbiased survey and explanation of the cost and performance management approaches and methods currently available for application in business. Topics covered include cost management and performance management/measurement options including ABC/M, Total Quality Management, Supply Chain Management, and Balanced Scorecard. Contrasts with managerial accounting textbooks, which tend to be conceptual and theoretical and not easily adaptable to practical situations. Assists readers in choosing the best approach or blend of methods to address specific business problems. Supports learning through real-world applications. Provides a complete presentation of field-tested cost management and performance management/measurement options.

Ideas about the role of management accounting systems in a firm's strategy have changed in recent years, and this book explores the ways in which this has happened. Management control systems have frequently been seen as irrelevant to strategy, or even damaging. Controlling Strategy draws out the various ways in which management control systems can build and sustain valuable strategic roles. The book explores topics such as: *Strategic measurement; *Strategic data analysis; *The Balanced Scorecard; *Capital budgeting; *Strategy coordination; Written as an introduction to the strategic role of management control systems Controlling Strategy provides a synthesis of important work in the fields of strategy and management accounting. Academics and Advanced Students of Accounting, Strategy, or Management Studies will find the book an indispensable guide to this area.

Volume 23 of Advances in Management Accounting features articles on a variety of current topics in management accounting that are relevant to researchers in both academe and practice. From its position as one of the premier management accounting research journals, the series is well poised to meet the needs of management accounting scholars.