Necessity: The Mother of Invention? The Tension Between Management Control and Creativity: Lessons from Apollo 13
| Autor: | Ady James, Ian Halkett, Basil P. Tucker |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Tucker, Basil, Halkett, Ian, James, Ady |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Necessity is the mother of invention
biology Tension (physics) media_common.quotation_subject Apollo Creativity biology.organism_classification innovation MCS Apollo 13 Aesthetics Accounting management control Business and International Management Psychology formal control creativity control/creativity media_common Management control system |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Management Accounting Research. 33:163-188 |
| ISSN: | 1558-8033 1049-2127 |
| DOI: | 10.2308/jmar-19-047 |
| Popis: | This case study develops our understanding of the ways in which management control and creativity coexist within organizations. We extend current understandings of how management control and creativity may combine by theorizing a broad typological framework comprising four basic forms. We postulate that not only can control and creativity coexist, but that they are mutually reliant and can function concurrently to differing extents within one operational entity as circumstances dictate. The case we use to illustrate our framework is based on a review of NASA documentation and first-person accounts of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, during which the need to manage the apparent dichotomy between control and creativity was literally a matter of life and death. Our findings serve as a foundational basis for further empirical and theoretical enquiry and offer research directions that may provide a deeper understanding of the ways in which control and creativity may combine. JEL Classifications: M00; M41. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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