Strategic Performance Management: Accounting for Organizational Control

Effective performance management is core to successful organizations. The new edition continues to look at performance management as an interdisciplinary field of study and practice and draws upon a wide set of business disciplines, including strategic management, organizational behaviour, organizational theory, and management accounting.

The book provides a contemporary examination of theories, issues, and practices related to performance management with an original performance management framework, grounded in concrete organizational phenomena, therefore making it more accessible and meaningful to practitioners, scholars, and students. The updated edition also examines organizations’ evolving use of digital business transformation and the effect on performance management design.

With updated cases, the latest edition will help readers to gain insights into the fields of strategic management, organizational behaviour, organizational theory, and management accounting and how they contribute to the study and practice of performance management.

Ralph W. Adler is Professor of Accounting at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has taught graduate and undergraduate students in the USA and New Zealand for more than 35 years. Ralph is the Director of Otago’s Centre for Organisational Performance Measurement and Management and serves as the Chairman of the Performance Measurement Association of Australasia. He qualified as a Certified Public Accountant (USA) in 1984 and was made a Fellow Chartered Accountant of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand in 2016. Ralph is a past holder of the Coopers and Lybrand Peter Barr Fellowship and the American Chamber of Commerce Business Education Fellowship. He is a graduate of Colgate University, NY (BA), Duke University, NC (MBA), and State University of New York Albany (PhD).