Goals versus institutions: the development of performance measurement in the Swedish university sector

This paper contrasts goal-directed and institutional approaches to the development of performance measurement (PM) in the Swedish university sector, which has been subject to increasing emphasis on management by objectives since the early 1990s. We adopt a macro perspective, focusing on recent changes in PM related to governmental control of universities and colleges and combine an extensive review of archival data with interviews in our empirical analysis. It is concluded that although the goal-directed model cannot be completely rejected as a heuristic informing recent changes in PM, a process-orientated institutional perspective considerably enriches the analysis by making it less static and more contextually informed. In particular, the latter perspective better explains the evolution of loose couplings between formally stated goals and performance indicators and between different systems for PM by directing attention to the complex interplay between conflicting constituent interests in the evolution of resource and cost allocation practices and quality control procedures. However, our empirical analysis also leads us to reconsider the conceptions of loose coupling as either a “given” feature of institutionalised organizations or an outcome of more pro-active resistance at the micro level prevailing in much earlier work in institutional theory.     

产权观下我国企业会计目标构建问题研究

会计目标一直是西方会计界重点关注和研究的问题,近年来,我国会计理论界和实务界也对其投以越来越多的关注。本文试图从企业产权理论和制度变迁的角度,以利益相关者权益保护为主线研究会计目标,理清从受托责任观到决策有用观演进的必然性和合理性,并在分析英美、法德模式会计目标的差异后,结合当前我国会计准则国际趋同的背景,提出我国应确立以利益相关者权益保护为中心、以企业特征为导向、针对不同环境分别选择受托责任或决策有用为核心内容的会计目标构建思想。     

战略管理会计的目标与原则分析

管理会计的目标与原则曾经受到国内外学者的广泛关注,但是相关研究并没有出现重大突破。新的经营环境和战略环境要求管理会计的目标与原则必须适应新的变化,以便在新环境下实现管理会计的职能与作用。基于此,文章提出了战略管理环境下管理会计的目标与原则。     

论会计信息相关性和可靠性的关系

相关性和可靠性作为会计信息的两大主要质量特征,一直备受人们的关注。相关性和可靠性到底孰轻孰重,在不同的时期人们有不同的认识。本文认为,在我国现阶段,可靠性应作为第一位的质量特征,并重于相关性。     

Teams, Firms and the Evolution of Profit Seeking Behavior

Even as advances in information theory over the last quarter century have cast increasing doubt on the proposition that firms successfully maximize profits, the objective of profit maximization continues to be an axiomatic feature of the neoclassical theory of the firm. This paper attempts to improve our understanding firms by treating the objective function as an open question. Specifically, an ontogenetic thought experiment is undertaken to address the question of what differentiates production teams from firms by asking why team members would sell their control rights to a principal, thereby transforming the team into a firm. What results is an account of the emergence of the objective of profit seeking. Profit seeking emerges endogenously as a more fit alternative than the objective of value maximization, which is less capable of coping with uncertainty through purposive adaptation.     

海洋经济可持续开发目标保证体系的探索

21世纪，人类将运用高科技对海洋资源进一步有效地开发，但在开发利用的同时又存在对海洋资源的破坏、污染问题。应如何建立可持续开发利用海洋资源的产业目标保证体系问题进行了较深入的探究。     

企业集团母子公司财务控制系统构建研究

企业集团是以产权关系为纽带 ,由众多企业法人共同组成的联合体。企业集团母子公司财务控制系统是企业集团核心管理内容之一。笔者通过自身的工作经验并结合理论研究认为 :企业集团母子公司财务控制系统是由财务人员控制系统、财务制度控制系统、财务目标控制系统和财务信息控制系统等构建的有机整体 ,企业集团管理当局应提供良好的人文环境和机制环境 ,保证其高效、及时、完整、良好地运行 ,保持企业集团的可持续发展 ,才能实现企业集团价值最大化     

基于风险平台实施企业集成风险管理

企业集成风险管理(EIRM)是企业风险管理发展的必然趋势,工作团队的确定和工作流程的构建是目前EIRM实施的瓶颈所在。在分析国内外相关研究的基础上,通过采用项目目标管理(MBO)方法和项目组的三维空间模型确定了EIRM的项目团队,并结合EIRM的组织结构建立了EIRM的工作流程,使EIRM的实施通过项目平台得以实现。     

论财务管理目标理论的框架结构

财务管理目标理论是研究在一定社会经济环境下财务管理目标的形成、表现和实现的理论。它包括财务管理目标和实现目标的观念要求两个方面的内容,后者又包括财务管理假设、财务管理观念、财务管理原则等理论要素。     

An outcome-based assessment of international transfer pricing policy

Instead of concentrating on the selection of the optimal transfer pricing method, this paper focuses on the consequences of international transfer pricing for multinational entities. A sample of U.S.-based multinational firms is employed to determine if transfer pricing results in measurable financial outcomes. Results of the study indicate that firms employ international transfer pricing to meet a variety of objectives. The dollar value of international transfers and the foreign sales percentage are both significant explanatory variables for the financial outcomes of these objectives.