Supply Chain Management: The Design and Use of Formal Management Control Systems

Gebert, Konstantin

A company’s ability to best exploit performance potentials within buyer-supplier relationships has become a critical success factor in securing competition and improving a company's overall performance. One powerful attempt to meet this challenge can be found in the application of cross-company management accounting approaches in order to execute performance control. However, implementation of suitable mechanisms and execution of control activities across company boundaries – commonly executed by both partners – is often insufficient because actual improvement potentials are not identified correctly. Embedded in a contingency-based research framework, the author combines several statistical methods to empirically analyze causal relationships between performance and contingent performance-determinants. Resulting in a control process-oriented guideline, findings support companies in the design and use of performance control systems in buyer-supplier relationships and open the field for further research.​

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Published by: Springer Gabler

Publication Date: 2013-07-23

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783658018924

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-01893-1

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 224