An Aspirational View of Organizational Control Research: Re-invigorating Empirical Work to Better Meet the Challenges of 21^stCentury Organizations

Organizational control is a key managerial function, and the focus of a great deal of research in the management and organizations field. Our concern is that research has not kept pace with changes in contemporary organizations and the external environment. In response to this concern, we review extant empirical work on organizational control with an emphasis on the consequences of control (i.e., the control–outcome linkage). As part of our...