Performance Measurement and Control Systems for Implementing Strategy Text and Cases by Robert Simons

Performance Measurement and Control Systems for Implementing Strategy Text and Cases by Robert Simons

For undergraduate Management Control Systems courses and other MBA Management Accounting and Control electives. This book represents an innovative new approach to management control systems, based on the latest research and practice. Using a carefully integrated structure, it shows how today's managers use both financial and non-financial controls to drive strategies of profitable growth in rapidly changing markets.

Robert Simons is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. During the last eleven years, Simons has taught accounting, strategy, and management control courses in both the Harvard MBA Program and the Executive Education Programs. A Canadian Chartered Accountant, Simons worked as an auditor and consultant with Price Waterhouse before earning his Ph.D. from McGill University with a joint concentration in control and business policy.

His ongoing research into the relationship between business strategy and management control systems has been published in academic journals and books such as Strategic Management Journal, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting and Management: Field Study Perspectives, and Journal of Accounting Literature.

P>Professor Simons has served as a consultant to a number of corporations on matters of organization structure, strategic planning, and control systems. He has testified as an expert witness before State Public Utility Commissions and in U.S. Federal Court. He lives with his wife and three children in Cohasset, twenty miles south of Boston

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ISBN 13	9780132340069
ISBN 10	0132340062
Title	Performance Measurement and Control Systems for Implementing Strategy Text and Cases
Author	Robert Simons
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pearson Education (US)
Year published	1999-06-29
Number of pages	792
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