Organizational and Budgetary Slack
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Organizational and Budgetary Slack
By (Author) Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
27th April 1994
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Organizational theory and behaviour
658.15
Physical Properties
Hardback
144
Description
Riahi-Belkaoui's research shows that US firms, and possibly firms elsewhere, resort to the underutilisation of their resources, a phenomenon known as organisational and budgetary slack. In this study, the author identifies and explains the phenomenon and its causes, explicates the characteristics of organisations afflicted by it, and suggests ways to remedy it. In doing so he also analyses the role of the multidivisional structure and "the performance plan" in the creation of slack, and the distortion of information that accompanies it. This study is aimed at organisational behaviour theorists, organisation planners and top management in the private and public sectors.
Author Bio
AHMED RIAHI-BELKAOUI is Professor of Accounting at the College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago. A member of the editorial boards of several professional journals, he is author or coauthor of more than 25 previous Quorum books.
