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This chapter presents how management control systems and financial intelligence can facilitate a firm’s strategic renewal . Although the strategic accounting literature has recognized the importance of financial intelligence to a firm’s strategic decision making and formulation of strategy, the question of how a management control system (MCS) can help a firm to revamp and reallocate its resources has been overlooked in the prior strategy literature. In response, this chapter presents a conceptual model, which presents how advanced management accounting systems can foster a firm’s strategic renewal in light of the available theoretical foundations (the strategy implementation view, the dynamic capability perspective, and management accounting). This chapter advances managers’ understanding of firm’s renewal practices through the use of an MCS. Practical examples have been used to illustrate how firms renew their business operations in practice .
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Huikkola, T., Koulumies, A., Laukkanen, V. (2017). How Management Control Systems Can Facilitate a Firm’s Strategic Renewal and Creation of Financial Intelligence. In: Kohtamäki, M. (eds) Real-time Strategy and Business Intelligence. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54846-3_4
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