Current Topics in Management (Electronic book text)

Volume thirteen in C"urrent Topics in Management" is focused on global perspectives on strategy, behavior, and performance. It highlights the economic roots of management the increase in visibility and perceived importance of accounting in the banking sector and how accounting is significant beyond its technical roles. It provides new insights into how management accounting practices, along with other organizational systems, play an important role in questioning, visualizing, analyzing, and measuring implemented strategies. It understands accounting's important influence on strategic decision-making, and its role in legitimating action. Cumulatively, these contributions integrate theory, research, and practice, while sharing ideas and insights from different national, cultural, and research traditions.