By
Sten Jonsson, Gothenburg Research Institute, Vasagatan 3, 5-411 Goteborg, Sweden
Description
Accounting for Improvement offers concrete and constructive demonstrations of the possibilities of designing participative forms
of organization. Field experiment cases illustrate how the operational level can assume a new significance in competitiveness and strategic
positioning. In this way, the relevance of the accounting function to the improvement of productivity and quality is restored.
Several
broadly applicable lessons can be learnt, among them: how companies can strengthen their competitive base by patient improvement; how
people with operative jobs can take command of their work situation and improve it in quality as well as efficiency.
New bottom-up,
people-orientated, empirically-founded approaches to decentralised participative management demonstrate a place for individuals and teamwork
in today's "lost relevance" and "smart machine" environment.
Audience:
For academics and researchers in behavioural accounting, organisational design and information systems; Doctoral MBA and other masters
students with action research interests; academic libraries, information systems designers; project leaders in quality and productivity
improvement.
