ABSTRACT

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1968 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

chapter |7 pages

Summary

part I|96 pages

The Research Subject

chapter 1|11 pages

Control. Autonomy and the Budget Process

chapter 2|20 pages

Budgets in Accounting Theory

chapter 3|44 pages

Budgets in Motivation Theory

The Game Spirit

chapter 4|21 pages

Budgets in Systems Theory

part II|18 pages

The Research Design

chapter 5|7 pages

The Research Field

chapter 6|11 pages

The Research Tools

part III|171 pages

The Research Findings

chapter 7|21 pages

Inputs and Outputs of a Budget System

chapter 8|29 pages

Tight or Loose Standards?

chapter 9|26 pages

Participation in Standard-Setting

chapter 11|29 pages

Staff-line-Communication

chapter 12|26 pages

Superior – Subordinate Communication

Pressure and Game Spirit in Practice

chapter 13|13 pages

Age, Education, Personality and Culture

chapter 14|7 pages

Technology and Market

part IV|12 pages

The Research Implications

chapter 15|9 pages

Practical Recommendations

chapter 16|3 pages

The Future of Budgets and Budget Research