Browsing by Author "Curtis, Emer"
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A collaborative tax administration: The case of co-operative compliance in Ireland
Bowe, Lucy (NUI Galway, 2024-02-19)Tax administrations worldwide face similar challenges in improving taxpayer services, addressing non-compliance, minimising the administrative burden on taxpayers, and reducing costs. In achieving these goals, tax ... -
Examining management control systems at middle manager level
Martyn, Patricia (NUI Galway, 2018-10-17)This thesis examines the influence of management control systems (MCS) at middle manager level as they drive change while remaining loyal implementors’ of current strategy (Bryant and Stensaker, 2011). It is well recognised ... -
Management control practices and pragmatism
Curtis, Emer; Sweeney, Breda (Emerald, 2023-06-28)Purpose Pragmatism is very relevant to workplace management and performance measurement, yet in the accounting literature, it is a term used loosely and in a colloquial manner. By drawing on a framework based on classical ... -
Managing different types of innovation: Mutual reinforcing management control systems and the generation of dynamic tension
Curtis, Emer; Sweeney, Breda (Taylor & Francis, 2016-11-17)Using a single case study of a highly innovative medical device company engaged in two types of innovation (technological and customer-oriented), this paper examines the nature of the relationship between mutually reinforcing ... -
Representing sustainability within organizations: the role of accounting and reporting practices
Granà, Fabrizio (NUI Galway, 2018-10-15)The aim of this thesis is twofold. The first aim of this thesis is to explore the role of accounting and reporting practices as organizations attempt to represent sustainability. Second, this thesis aims to explore how ... -
Simons' levers of control framework: Commensuration within and of the framework
Curtis, Emer; Lillis, Anne M.; Sweeney, Breda (2017)Abstract Purpose Despite extensive adoption of Simons’ Levers of Control (LoC) framework, there is still considerable diversity in its operationalization which impedes the coherent development of the literature and ... -
Strategy and control: 25 years of empirical use of simons’ levers of control framework
Martyn, Patricia; Sweeney, Breda; Curtis, Emer (Emerald, 2016-09-05)Purpose - Tremendous change has taken place in organisational structures, networks and strategy over the past 25 years. Yet, a strategic management framework developed 25 years ago has increased in popularity among researchers ...