The evolutionary challenges of management control between strategic relationship, institutional innovation and discontinuity: a knowledge transfer matter?

Journal title MANAGEMENT CONTROL
Author/s Andrea Cardoni
Publishing Year 2018 Issue 2018/1
Language Italian Pages 11 P. 5-15 File size 174 KB
DOI 10.3280/MACO2018-001001
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Management control studies provide a relevant body of knowledge able to support any organization in the strategy formulation, information processing and performance measurement. The suggested frameworks and tools are now proposed and implemented in a wide range of organizational contexts to face the increasing environmental discontinuity, characterized by the growing importance of strategic relationships and institutional innovations. In this scenario, the selected papers discuss some theoretical proposals and cases of implementation that could be interpreted in the knowledge transfer perspective, stimulating an analytical approach able to foster the role of management control in supporting economic and social development.

Keywords: Management control, strategic relationships, innovation, performance measurement, knowledge transfer.

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Andrea Cardoni, Le sfide evolutive del Management Control tra relazioni strategiche, innovazione e discontinuità: a knowledge transfer matter? in "MANAGEMENT CONTROL" 1/2018, pp 5-15, DOI: 10.3280/MACO2018-001001