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Organisational Role Conflicts And Researcher's Role Conflicts Exposed Using Ethnographic Explorations Of A Case Study, M. A. Kaidonis
Organisational Role Conflicts And Researcher's Role Conflicts Exposed Using Ethnographic Explorations Of A Case Study, M. A. Kaidonis
Faculty of Business - Accounting & Finance Working Papers
Organisational control of a public housing institution (the Crust) was exposed using interpretive methodology. Information was obtained from extensive interviews of key personnel. It was found that, control of the organisation was influenced by the control of the accounting information system. Further, the control was exercised by one particular person through stifling the development of the computerisation of the AIS. The development of the AIS highlighted the conflict of the Crust's roles (of helping to house people and to conduct itself in a business like manner). The methodology employed is reflective and highlighted contradictions and conflicts of the author's role …
Interactive Effects Of Evaluation Style And Organizational Structure Characteristics Of Autonomy And Interdependence On Subunit Managerial Performance, H. Y. Teoh, R. Lam
Interactive Effects Of Evaluation Style And Organizational Structure Characteristics Of Autonomy And Interdependence On Subunit Managerial Performance, H. Y. Teoh, R. Lam
Faculty of Business - Accounting & Finance Working Papers
This study was designed to provide empirical evidence that subunit managerial performance is an interactive function of evaluation style and organization characteristics of autonomy and interdependence. Both autonomy and interdependence are believed crucial to the design of evaluation systems because the accounting literature has suggested that accounting performance measurement is more suitable for independent and autonomous organizational subunits. Subjects were division managers of profit centers and investment centers from large manufacturing companies within the Metropolitan Sydney and Wollongong areas. Collection of data was based on interviews and pretested questionnaire. The statistical analysis involved formulation of two regression equations in which …