Association between use of management control system and organizational performance
Abstract
This study was developed with the purpose of analyzing the influence of the use of the management control system on the performance of the Best and Largest Brazilian companies. Based on the literature on managerial control, more precisely in the Levers of Control (beliefs, boundary, diagnostics and interactive systems) model proposed by Simons (1994, 1995) and the organizational performance (financial and non-financial) construct, a survey was developed based on data from 98 companies. The data were collected through an electronic questionnaire and treated with the technique of structural equations modeling. The findings confirm that the interactive control system is positively associated with the diagnostic system, which suggests that the balanced use of control levers is relevant to promote managerial control in organizations. In this way, companies can combine the more traditional control system - diagnostics - with the interactive system, as a way to promote strategic renewal. The hypotheses that propose the diagnostic control system and the system of boundary as an interdependent variable were not supported. Finally, regarding the belief system, evidence of its positive association with the interactive and constraint systems, as well as with performance, was found. The findings of this research contribute to expand the study of the four levers of control proposed by Simons (1994, 1995) in line with performance, as had been partially done by Su, Baird and Schoch (2015) with the interactive system and the diagnostic system.
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