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Interfaces of control. Technocratic and socio-ideological control in a global management consultancy firm

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

This paper investigates a variety of forms of management control in a large management consultancy company. The very high level of compliance with corporate objectives among employees is highlighted and singled out as a phenomenon worth exploring. The company exhibits a rich variety of various formal control devices focusing on financial issues as well as human resources. The paper shows that these do not fully work according to intention and that their control effects do not comply that well with the bureaucratic- technocratic logic they rest upon. Technocratic control systems are instead identified as non-obvious sources of socio-ideological control. The paper emphasizes the interface between different forms of control and argues for a more symbolic, meaning-focusing view on bureaucratic and output measurement control. (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Publiceringsår

2004

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

423-444

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Accounting, Organizations and Society

Volym

29

Issue

3-4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Business Administration

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0361-3682