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Exposing organizational tensions with a non-traditional budgeting system

Samuel Sponem

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PurposeThe Beyond Budgeting movement has argued that traditional budgets failed to contribute to the management of tensions associated with the increasing complexity of business models. The literature has reported a range of budgeting practices developed to address these problems, which the authors refer to collectively as “non-traditional (NT) budgets.” The purpose of this paper is to consider how the design and use of a NT budgeting system facilitates the management of multiple organizational tensions.Design/methodology/approachThe study reports the findings of an in-depth case study on three business units (BUs) of the French chemical giant SSB, a company that implemented a NT budget inspired by the Beyond Budgeting Round Table model.FindingsThe authors provide detailed empirical insights into the design and use of a NT budgeting system and analyze the manner in which the new system exposes organizational tensions across multiple axes.Research limitations/implicationsIt is a limitation of the study that only three of SSB 21 BU’s which implemented the NT budget project were examined in depth. This limitation is mitigated to some extent by the review of audit reports in respect of the implementation of the NT budget in a total of 15 BU’s.Practical implicationsThe study contributes a means of analyzing NT budgets in terms of the different types of organizational tensions generated, which should be of use to both researchers and practitioners in researching, designing, and evaluating NT budgets.Originality/valueThis study provides detailed empirical insights into the design and use of a NT budgeting system and evidence of the success of this system in exposing organizational tensions across multiple axes. The study illustrates how productive tensions can be generated through the analysis of discrepancies between alternative views of organizational performance.
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hal-01779649 , version 1 (26-04-2018)

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Nicolas Berland, Emer Curtis, Samuel Sponem. Exposing organizational tensions with a non-traditional budgeting system. Journal of applied accounting research, 2018, 19 (1), ⟨10.1108/JAAR-01-2016-0010⟩. ⟨hal-01779649⟩
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