Editors:
- One of the few books to integrate the three areas of strategy, management control and competitive advantage in a multilevel setting
- Presents a theoretical framework for analyzing successfully combinations of strategy and control systems
- Contains detailed case descriptions, which are very rare in this subject area
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
How should firms’ control systems be designed and used to formulate and implement strategies that will contribute to competitive advantage and sustained high performance? This book offers some thought-provoking suggestions.
It contains empirical studies of such diverse manufacturing enterprises as Atlas Copco, Electrolux, Saab, Scania, SCA Packing and Volvo, as well as an insurance company and two chamber orchestras. All firms and organizations presented offer interesting and exciting insights, each in a specific way and each with a fascinating history.
The book presents research on the relationship between strategy, control and competitive advantage over extended periods and at several strategic levels, while also taking into account the existence of multiple control systems in a single firm or other organization. Readers are offered an in-depth look into how changes in the environment lead to adjustments in strategies and control systems. It is shown, in addition, how difficult and challenging it can be to implement these changes, and why such efforts are not always successful. But perhaps most importantly, the book conveys an in-depth understanding of how strategies and control systems affect competitive advantage and performance.
In both its coverage and focus, the book is unique. Not only does it provide valuable contributions to the research field of strategy and management control; it also represents a substantial commitment in terms of resources and involvement over an extended period.
The book is highly recommended to researchers, practitioners, graduate students and all others interested in this area.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University Economic Information Systems, Linköping, Sweden
Erik Jannesson
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Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Fredrik Nilsson
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Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology, Gothenburg, Ljusterö, Sweden
Birger Rapp
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Strategy, Control and Competitive Advantage
Book Subtitle: Case Study Evidence
Editors: Erik Jannesson, Fredrik Nilsson, Birger Rapp
Series Title: Management for Professionals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39134-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-39133-0Published: 07 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51377-4Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-39134-7Published: 25 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2192-8096
Series E-ISSN: 2192-810X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 271
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Management, Organization