Governing the firm: Innovation, performance and risk

Journal title MANAGEMENT CONTROL
Author/s Rebecca Levy Orelli, Filippo Zanin
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/suppl. 2
Language English Pages 10 P. 5-14 File size 173 KB
DOI 10.3280/MACO2021-002-S1001
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The article analyses the most recent challenges for governing the firms in the present post-pandemic scenario. In that context, it is central to understand how management control operates, providing insights concerning the intersection between accounting, organisational and social aspects. A realistic view of the different issues is imperative for governing the firm. All the private, public and non-profit organizations need to gather together innovation, performance and risks with a specific balance to face the next two years of challenges to recover from the pandemic, hopefully, completely. In the present special issue all the research papers offer insights about at list one out of the different challenges, contributing to the advancement of knowledge related to drivers and barriers for governing the firm.

Keywords: Firm Government, Innovation, Performance, Risk.

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Rebecca Levy Orelli, Filippo Zanin, Governing the firm: Innovation, performance and risk in "MANAGEMENT CONTROL" suppl. 2/2021, pp 5-14, DOI: 10.3280/MACO2021-002-S1001