Does business strategy and management control system fit determine performance?
PurposeThis study examines the relationship between business strategy, management control system (MCS) type and performance. Does the alignment of organisation business strategy and MCS fresult in better performance?Design/methodology/approachThis study draws on the business strategy and MCS type literature to identify business strategies and MCS types. A scoring method was used to identify business strategy types and cluster analysis to identify MCS types from a sample of 80 firms and 621 firm-years of data. Analysis of variance was used analyse the differences.FindingsFour types of MCS were identified and were labelled clan, adhocracy, market and hierarchy. The sample was split into defen…
Top management team demography and firm operating performance: a path analysis
PurposeThis paper examined the relationship between TMT demographic properties and firm performance using diversity and level variables and measuring differing constructs of firm performance representing divergent strategies.Design/methodology/approachStructural equation modelling was used to test the relationships between TMT demographic properties and firm performance measured as return on net operating assets (RNOA), and its disaggregates profit margin (PM) and asset turnover (ATO). Data were from 89 Finnish firms during the years 2008–2011, resulting in 320 observations.FindingsTMT team tenure had associations with RNOA through both PM and ATO while TMT age, age diversity, firm tenure, …
Johtoryhmän ominaisuuksien vaikutus suomalaisten pörssiyritysten suoritukseen
Tutkielmassa selvitettiin johtoryhmien vaikutusta yrityksen suoritukseen. Teoreettinen näkökulma perustui organizational demography- ja upper echelons -teorioihin, joiden mukaan johtoryhmän ominaisuudet ryhmänä ovat seurausta jäsenten ominaisuuksista, ja nämä ominaisuudet heijastuvat strategisiin valintoihin ja suoritukseen. Päätavoite oli selvittää vaikuttavatko johtoryhmän ominaisuudet yrityksen suoritukseen. Lisäksi selvitettiin onko johtoryhmän monimuotoisuudella merkitystä suoritukseen ja muuttuuko vaikutus johtoryhmän toimikauden pituuden kasvaessa. Tutkimuskohteina olivat NASDAQ OMX Helsinki -pörssissä lokakuussa 2012 no-teeratut yritykset. Tiedot kerättiin vuoden 2011 johtoryhmästä …
Exploring management control system typologies : an organisation-level view
PurposeManagement controls are the processes and mechanisms managers use to influence the behaviour of individuals and groups towards the organisation’s objectives and goals. Discrete management controls and management control system (MCS) frameworks have been extensively researched, but there is little research on organisation-level MCS types. This study aims to identify organisation-level MCS types.Design/methodology/approachThis study draws on the MCS type literature, the competing values framework and the upper echelons theory to form organisation effectiveness and top management team constructs to characterise firms. Cluster analysis was used to group a sample of 318 firm-years into MC…