Diversité des pratiques de contrôle budgétaire:approches contingentes et néo-institutionnelles

Samuel Sponem ()
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Samuel Sponem: HEC Montréal - HEC Montréal

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Abstract: How can we explain the diversity of budgetary control practices? This research, based on contingency and new institutional theories, explores the reasons that underscore such diversity. Data have been collected from 246 management controllers or CFOs. We show that taking into account institutional factors (belonging to a parent corporation, type of shareholder and functional background of the CEO) allows for a better understanding of budgetary control diversity than traditional contingency factors (environment uncertainty, technology, decentralization and strategy). We suggest that budgetary control can be seen as a device that helps organizations to be legitimated in specific institutional environments.

Keywords: management control; budgetary control; new institutionalism; contingency theory; contrôle de gestion; contrôle budgétaire; théorie néoinstitutionnelle; théorie contingente (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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Published in Finance Contrôle Stratégie, 2010, 13 (3), pp.115-153

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