Relevance Regained

Name: Relevance Regained
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ISBN: 9780743236270

ISBN-10: 0743236270

ISBN-13: 9780743236270

Edition: 2002

Authors: H. Thomas Johnson

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Building on his pathbreaking, award-winning bestseller, Relevance Lost, H. Thomas Johnson presents a devastating critique of the top-down hierarchical accounting systems that have dominated American corporations since the 1950s. Johnson shows exactly how "managing by remote control" through results-oriented accounting information has obscured and obstructed the real business objective: to reduce process variation and lead times for the purpose of obtaining and keeping satisfied customers. The failure of most American businesses to be competitive and profitable in recent years, he contends, is their reliance on management accounting information to control people's actions and…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 1/15/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

H. Thomas Johnson is Professor of Business Administration at Portland State University in Oregon and Distinguished Consulting Professor of Sustainable Business at Bainbridge Graduate Institute in Washington. He co-authored Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting, which is considered one of the most influential management books of the twentieth century by the Harvard Business Review.