1st Edition

The Game of Budget Control

Edited By G. H. Hofstede Copyright 1968
    374 Pages
    by Routledge

    374 Pages
    by Routledge

    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
    This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
    Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1968 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

    Summary; I: The Research Subject; 1: Control. Autonomy and the Budget Process; 2: Budgets in Accounting Theory; 3: Budgets in Motivation Theory; 4: Budgets in Systems Theory; II: The Research Design; 5: The Research Field; 6: The Research Tools; III: The Research Findings; 7: Inputs and Outputs of a Budget System; 8: Tight or Loose Standards?; 9: Participation in Standard-Setting; 10: Management Information and Accounting Techniques; 11: Staff-line-Communication; 12: Superior – Subordinate Communication; 13: Age, Education, Personality and Culture; 14: Technology and Market; IV: The Research Implications; 15: Practical Recommendations; 16: The Future of Budgets and Budget Research

    Biography

    G. H. Hofstede