Organizational and Budgetary Slack

by Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui

Riahi-Belkaoui's research shows that U.S. firms, and possibly firms elsewhere, resort to the underutilization of their resources, a phenomenon known as organizational and budgetary slack. In this, the first exhaustive study of slack, the author identifies and explains the phenomenon and its causes, explicates the characteristics of organizations afflicted by it, and suggests ways to remedy it. In doing so, he also analyzes the role of the multidivisional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899308848
• ISBN13: 9780899308845
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"