The Need for Accounting in Dialects: Making the Special Competitive Culture in Family-Run Companies Sustainable

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Author(s): Per Forsberg (University of Borås, Sweden)and Mikael Lind (University of Borås, Sweden)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 16
Source title: Organizational Communication and Sustainable Development: ICTs for Mobility
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Anette Hallin (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)and Tina Karrbom-Gustavsson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-822-2.ch011

Keywords: Environment & Agriculture / Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Sustainable Development

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This chapter deals with the challenge of ensuring and sustaining cultural competitiveness in a globalised world where control and management tend to be made at a distance. The authors illustrate this by arguing that family-run businesses have a special culture that makes them good at creating and taking part in innovative networks. Today this culture is however threatened. Implementation of technologies for controlling and governing at a distance destroy this special family-run business culture. As a solution to this problem the authors suggest that new technologies of communication have the potential to strengthen the ability to create innovative networks. New technologies of communication do this when they give rise to alternative forms of communication and thus complement management based on “controlling and acting at a distance”.

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