Management accounting research is substantially focused on the area of management control, where the concept of management control systems is used. A vivid debate among academics is held whether management accounting research is not excessively focused on management control field while decision making information support tends to be rather neglected. The aim of the thesis is to assess the contribution of the concept of management control system, its progressive potential and value added from the point of view of management accounting. In the first part, the thesis is concerned with theoretical background of management control systems and the potential of prevailing theories to conceptualize an effective management control system. In the second part, the thesis focuses on contentual analysis of the concept of management control system. Relation between management accounting and management control system is examined in particular. The thesis assesses the contribution of the concept of management control system and its progressive potential derived from the ability of this concept to describe relevant facts and links in a more suitable way, concluding that the concept of management control system is advantageous in researching the control systems of companies and their information support, because certain aspects of this concept enables to understand to researched issues at a higher qualitative level.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:77147 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Matyáš, Ondřej |
| Contributors | Fibírová, Jana, Král, Bohumil, Houser, Václav |
| Publisher | Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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