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New Ventures: Control Of Risks Through Strategies, Simone Kelly, Raymond Mcnamara
New Ventures: Control Of Risks Through Strategies, Simone Kelly, Raymond Mcnamara
Ray McNamara
This paper uses case studies and interview data to explore the relationship between control and new venture success/survival. A model of the new venture control process is distilled and explored in six new venture cases. The control processes were traced through an examination of the everyday language of venture principals to determine a grounded lower order model. Integrating these models into contingency theory locates strategic risk reduction choices as the crucial link between contingent variables and organizational control packages. In this sense the process of organizing is seen as a tiered process of risk reduction: successful firms analyze and control …
New Ventures: Control Of Risks Through Strategies, Simone Kelly, Raymond Mcnamara
New Ventures: Control Of Risks Through Strategies, Simone Kelly, Raymond Mcnamara
Simone Kelly
This paper uses case studies and interview data to explore the relationship between control and new venture success/survival. A model of the new venture control process is distilled and explored in six new venture cases. The control processes were traced through an examination of the everyday language of venture principals to determine a grounded lower order model. Integrating these models into contingency theory locates strategic risk reduction choices as the crucial link between contingent variables and organizational control packages. In this sense the process of organizing is seen as a tiered process of risk reduction: successful firms analyze and control …
Auditor Orientation, Strategies, And Tactics In Audit Negotiations, Janice Hollindale, Pamela Kent, Ray Mcnamara
Auditor Orientation, Strategies, And Tactics In Audit Negotiations, Janice Hollindale, Pamela Kent, Ray Mcnamara
Ray McNamara
This paper establishes the tactics that auditors use in negotiations with their client-management. It analyses those tactics to determine whether they are related by some underlying dimensions and their relevant strategies. Auditors performed a sorting task on 38 audit-specific tactics and assembled the tactics into groups of similar tactics. We used the auditors’ own cognisant representations of those tactics to determine their underlying structure. Multidimensional scaling found that there are four dimensions to the tactics that auditors use. During negotiations with their clients, auditors employ tactics representing core dimensions which can be interpreted as “Concern for Self”, “Concern for Client”, …
Auditor Orientation, Strategies, And Tactics In Audit Negotiations, Janice Hollindale, Pamela Kent, Ray Mcnamara
Auditor Orientation, Strategies, And Tactics In Audit Negotiations, Janice Hollindale, Pamela Kent, Ray Mcnamara
Pamela Kent
This paper establishes the tactics that auditors use in negotiations with their client-management. It analyses those tactics to determine whether they are related by some underlying dimensions and their relevant strategies. Auditors performed a sorting task on 38 audit-specific tactics and assembled the tactics into groups of similar tactics. We used the auditors’ own cognisant representations of those tactics to determine their underlying structure. Multidimensional scaling found that there are four dimensions to the tactics that auditors use. During negotiations with their clients, auditors employ tactics representing core dimensions which can be interpreted as “Concern for Self”, “Concern for Client”, …