Organizational and Budgetary Slack

by Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui

Overview

Riahi-Belkaoui's research shows that U.S. firms, and possibly firms elsewhere, resort to the underutilization of their resources, a phenomenon known as organizational and budgetary slack. In this, the first exhaustive study of slack, the author identifies and explains the phenomenon and its causes, explicates the characteristics of organizations afflicted by it, and suggests ways to remedy it. In doing so, he also analyzes the role of the multidivisional structure and the performance plan in the creation of slack, and the distortion of information that accompanies it. A challenging study for organizational behavior theorists and for organization planners and top management in the private and public sectors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780899308845
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/27/1994
Pages:	142
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.38(d)
Lexile:	1690L (what's this?)

About the Author

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 jourbanals, he is author or coauthor of more than 25 previous Quorum books.

Table of Contents

Exhibits and Figure
Preface
Organizational and Budgetary Slack
Properties of Organizational Slack in the U.S. Context
Organizational Slack and Multidivisional Structure: The Contingency of Diversification Strategy
Organizational Slack and Performance Plan Adoption
Slack Budgeting, Information Distortion, and Self-Esteem
Slack Budgeting and Information Distortion: The Impact of Accountability and Self-Monitoring
Index