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Using management control and performance measurement to solve global societal challenges: Research progress and opportunities

Performance Measurement and Management Control: Behavioral Implications and Human Actions

ISBN: 978-1-78350-377-3, eISBN: 978-1-78350-378-0

Publication date: 9 May 2014

Abstract

Purpose

While management control and performance measurement research and practices have advanced significantly in the last decades, the research and applications to social impacts and social purpose organizations are underdeveloped. This chapter reports on three research studies that have important implications for future research and practice in the use of management control and performance measurement to solve global societal challenges.

Approach

This chapter provides new frameworks and performance measurement approaches used in three recent series of research projects. It also provides the results of this extensive research in using existing theories and managerial practices to improve success and the measurement of success in for-profit and nonprofit organizations that are focused on increasing their positive social impacts.

Findings

This research that spans more than 20 years and includes numerous projects and research methods in many countries has discovered a prior lack of application of existing theories, approaches, tools, and measures that are fundamental to management control and performance measurement. It found that much work is still needed in both academic research and managerial practices to apply them effectively in social purpose organizations and suggests areas for future research.

Originality

By reviewing the literature comprehensively and doing a series of related research projects, this analysis provides a foundation for future research in the applicability of management control and performance measurement approaches to the measurement and improvement of the social impacts of both for-profit and nonprofit organizations.

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Citation

Epstein, M.J. (2014), "Using management control and performance measurement to solve global societal challenges: Research progress and opportunities", Performance Measurement and Management Control: Behavioral Implications and Human Actions (Studies in Managerial and Financial Accounting, Vol. 28), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 3-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-351220140000028006

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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