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2. Managing by Remote Control: Recent Management Accounting Practice in Historical Perspective
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H. Thomas Johnson
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
- 1. Business History and Recent Economic Theory: Imperfect Information, Incentives, and the Internal Organization of Firms 7
- 2. Managing by Remote Control: Recent Management Accounting Practice in Historical Perspective 41
- 3. The Use of Cost Measures: The Dow Chemical Company, 1890-1914 71
- 4. Investing in Information: Supply and Demand Forces in the Use of Information in American Firms, 1850-1920 117
- 5. Information Problems and Banks’ Specialization in Short- Term Commercial Lending: New England in the Nineteenth Century 161
- 6. Did J. P. Morgan’s Men Add Value? An Economist’s Perspective on Financial Capitalism 205
- Contributors 251
- Name Index 253
- Subject Index 257
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
- 1. Business History and Recent Economic Theory: Imperfect Information, Incentives, and the Internal Organization of Firms 7
- 2. Managing by Remote Control: Recent Management Accounting Practice in Historical Perspective 41
- 3. The Use of Cost Measures: The Dow Chemical Company, 1890-1914 71
- 4. Investing in Information: Supply and Demand Forces in the Use of Information in American Firms, 1850-1920 117
- 5. Information Problems and Banks’ Specialization in Short- Term Commercial Lending: New England in the Nineteenth Century 161
- 6. Did J. P. Morgan’s Men Add Value? An Economist’s Perspective on Financial Capitalism 205
- Contributors 251
- Name Index 253
- Subject Index 257
