Understanding Competitive Advantage - The Importance of Strategic Congruence and Integrated Control (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)

The link between strategies and control systems and how it ultimately af fects the competitiveness of firms is an area that is attracting the atten tion of practitioners and scholars. There is a need to discuss which combi nations of strategies and control systems can be assumed to contribute to competitive strength. In this book we have chosen to highlight the role of management control and manufacturing control in this respect. For a long time these two types of control systems were regarded as more or less separate subjects of research and study. However, the differences between management control and manufacturing control are diminishing, a ten dency that we support. The book is written in this spirit of approval. The models and hypotheses advanced in the book were developed over a long period of time. They are based on research and have been published and otherwise presented in a variety of different circumstances (see, for example, Jansson et al., 2000; Kald et al., 2000; Nilsson, 1994, 1997, 2002; Rapp et al., 2000). Our colleagues have stimulated our thinking and have contributed to further refinement of the thoughts presented in the book. We would like to thank Professor Leif Appelgren, Professor Thomas Falk, Professor Nils Goran Olve, Professor Rolf Rundfelt, Professor Bengt Saven, Associate professor Vivian Vimarlund and Assistant professor Alf Westelius for their valuable comments and inspiration.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	September 2004
First published:	November 2004
Authors:	Fredrik Nilsson • Birger Rapp
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	231
Edition:	2005 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-540-40872-7
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > General
LSN:	3-540-40872-X
Barcode:	9783540408727

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