Reflections on Individual Personal Values in the Budgetary Slack Phenomenontitle>

Budgetary slack: The Effects of Truth-Inducing Schemes on Slack and Performance

In large organizations, division managers are not necessary solely motivated by profit maximization goals but rather by some self – interest motives. These self-interest motives may explicit itself in the organization budgeting process. A control problem arises usually when division managers use their private information to make decision consistent with selfinterest rather than the interest of ...

reflections on taught courses of the iranian ma program in english translation: a mixed-methods study

the issue of curriculum and syllabus evaluation and revision has been in center of attention right from when curriculum came into attention of educational institutions. thus everywhere in the world in educational institutions curricula and syllabi are evaluated and revised based on the goals, the needs, existing content, etc.. in iran any curriculum is designed in a committee of specialists and...

The relationship between two consequences of budgetary controls: budgetary slack creation and managerial short-term orientation$

Previous studies have provided contradictory evidence with respect to the e€ect of rigid budgetary controls on slack and other dysfunctional behaviors. One motivation for the current study was to test whether spillover e€ects exist between two alleged dysfunctional consequences of a rigid budgetary control style: budget slack creation and managerial short-term orientation. The data support this...

Personal reflections on the "animal-rights" phenomenon.

Personal reflections on the neuropathology of kuru

My involvement with kuru began towards the end of 1963 while I was a Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). During the autumn of that year I was contacted by Dr Michael Alpers, who was on his way to Boston from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland with a carload of New Guinean artefacts to be delivered to the Peabody Museum in Salem, Massachusetts on behalf...