Chapter 11: Designing Entrepreneurial Control Systems
Nature of Control in Organizations:
Control Systems are those formal and informal mechanisms that help managers
ensure that resources are obtained and used effectively and efficiently in the
accomplishment of the organization’s objectives.
- Controls are intended to guard against the possibility that people will do
something the organization doesn’t want them to do, or fail to do something
they should do.
- Controls are put over inputs, processes and outputs
Dimensions of Control and Entrepreneurship
A control system can be characterized based on a number of key attributes (eg.
Degree of formality and prescriptiveness, desire for conformance and compliance,
degree of rigidness, desire for consistency, use of coercive power, distribution of
Nature of Control in Organizations:
Control Systems are those formal and informal mechanisms that help managers
ensure that resources are obtained and used effectively and efficiently in the
accomplishment of the organization’s objectives.
- Controls are intended to guard against the possibility that people will do
something the organization doesn’t want them to do, or fail to do something
they should do.
- Controls are put over inputs, processes and outputs
Dimensions of Control and Entrepreneurship
A control system can be characterized based on a number of key attributes (eg.
Degree of formality and prescriptiveness, desire for conformance and compliance,
degree of rigidness, desire for consistency, use of coercive power, distribution of
