This timely and innovative book focuses on budgeting control and ongoing Beyond Budgeting trends and its consequences for the organization. This discussion is further supplemented with a broader approach to the issue of control that spans issues such as self-control, time control, transparency as control, ethical control and cultural control.

Contents: Preface Katarina Kaarbøe 1. Control and Autonomy – Management Challenges and Tensions Katarina Kaarbøe, Paul N. Gooderham and Hanne Nørreklit PART I: BUDGETING CONTROL AND BEYOND 2. Taking Reality Seriously – Towards a More Self-regulating Management Model at Statoil Bjarte Bogsnes 3. Environmental Uncertainty and the Use of Budgets Niels Sandalgaard 4. Management Accounting Tools in Banks: Are Banks Without Budgets More Profitable? Trond Bjørnenak 5. Beyond Budgeting from the American and Norwegian Perspectives: The Embeddedness of Management Models in Corporate Governance Systems Daniel Johanson 6. Putting Beyond Budgeting Ideas into Practice Katarina Kaarbøe, Inger Stensaker and Teemu Malmi 7. A New Way of Being a Controller – From Bellboy to Actor Hanne Nørreklit and Katarina Kaarbøe PART II: PERSPECTIVES AND CONTROL DIMENSIONS 8. Management Control as Temporal Structuring Sebastian D. Becker and Martin Messner 9. The Planning-regime Concept and its Application to Three Examples of Organizational Budgeting Anatoli Bourmistrov and Katarina Kaarbøe 10. Does Managerial Discretion Affect Learning from Experience in Organizations? Bjarne Espedal and Alexander Madsen Sandvik 11. The Autonomy-creativity Orientation of Elite Business School Students in the US and Norway Paul N. Gooderham, Alexander Madsen Sandvik, Siri Terjesen and Odd Nordhaug 12. Systems of Accountability and Personal Responsibility Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen Epilogue: Welcome to DYMACO Bino Catasús Index

‘This is a book for all who are interested in organizational management philosophy or control practices as the book offers new ways of understanding the dynamics of management. By employing multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives the book provides refreshing and engaging analyses of beyond budgeting and different forms of control. This book will be a source of inspiration for researchers and practitioners by given reasoning and ideas for better understanding of the dynamics, mysteries and paradoxes of control in contemporary organizations.’