A brief history of budgeting: Reflections on beyond budgeting, its link to performance management and its appropriateness for software development

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 167, Issue , 2013, Pages 81-105

  Lohan, Garry ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Agile methods; Beyond budgeting; Budgeting; Performance management

Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGILE METHODS; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; COMMAND AND CONTROL; FLEXIBLE FOUNDATIONS; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING; PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT;

BUDGET CONTROL;

EID: 84995725887     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-44930-7_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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