Centralization & Decentralization: Which, when and how Much: Reprints from Harvard Business Review |
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accounting action activities agement ager approach Aztec basis Bowden capital CBIS planning central Cherokee Clover company's concept conglomerates control system cost decisions depreciation diversified majors divi division managers divisional earn effective evaluation example executives Exhibit expense factors fixed assets formal function George Kessler goals Harvard Business School inputs inventory investment base investment centers Jim Bowden John Dearden lems logistics management information system management scientists manager's manufacturing marketing materials management measure ment middle manager net book value operations organization organizational pany personnel proach prob problem profit budget profit center manager profit objective profit performance purchasing Quasar Stellar Reprinted from HBR residual income responsibility result risk analysis sion spin-out staff strategy structure subsidiary technique tion tive top management transfer price variables vice president