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Centralized and Decentralized Bibliography

Provided by James R. Martin, Ph.D., CMA
Professor Emeritus, University of South Florida

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Anderson, R. T. Jr. 1960. Centralized record keeping for decentralized operations - Nation-wide order and production control. N.A.A. Bulletin -1960 Conference Proceedings II (August): 3-11.

Anderton, F. N. 1966. Centralized cash management for a decentralized company. Management Accounting (March): 51-59.

Bareuther, E. E. and B. E. Stromberg. 1957. Budgeting policy and practice in a decentralized company. N.A.A. Bulletin (October): 31-44.

Beaudry, D. P. Jr. 1949. An economical payroll system featuring centralized processing of employee deductions by machine methods. N.A.C.A. Bulletin (September): 43-58.

Becker, E. M. 1966. The case for decentralized data processing in manufacturing companies. Management Accounting (January):17-18.

Bernstein, F. and A. Federgruen. 2005. Decentralized supply chains with competing retailers under demand uncertainty. Management Science (January): 18-29.

Bhide, A. 2010. The judgment deficit: Statistical models have deprived the financial sector of the case-by-case judgment that makes capitalism thrive. That must change. Harvard Business Review (September): 44-53. (Decentralized individual judgment and initiative are essential to the success of the modern capitalist economy.).

Bradford, M., J. B. Earp and S. Grabski. 2014. Centralized end-to-end identity and access management and ERP systems: A multi-case analysis using the Technology Organization Environment framework. International Journal of Accounting Information Systems 15(2): 149-165.

Bynum, G. R. 1960. Centralized record keeping for decentralized operations - Development of data processing applications. N.A.A. Bulletin -1960 Conference Proceedings II (August): 12-15.

Carlson, C. E. 1945. Standard costs under decentralized production. N.A.C.A. Bulletin (June 1): 879-886.

Cooper, J. J. 1959. Facing up to centralized accounting. N.A.A. Bulletin (April): 27-28.

Corless, D. W. 1956. Centralized timekeeping pays off. N.A.C.A. Bulletin (May): 1137-1140.

Demski, J. S., J. M. Patell and M. A. Wolfson. 1984. Decentralized choice of monitoring systems. The Accounting Review (January): 16-34.

Deo, S. and I. Gurvich. 2011. Centralized vs. decentralized ambulance diversion: A network perspective. Management Science (July): 1300-1319.

Dutta, S. and Q. Fan. 2012. Incentives for innovation and centralized versus delegated capital budgeting. Journal of Accounting and Economics (June): 592-611.

Dutta, S. and S. Reichelstein. 2010. Decentralized capacity management and internal pricing. Review of Accounting Studies 15(3): 442-478.

Freeland, J. R. 1975. A note on a resource directive algorithm for allocation of resources in a decentralized organization. Decision Sciences 6(1): 186-189.

Godfrey, J. T. 1971. Short-run planning in a decentralized firm. The Accounting Review (April): 286-297.

Gox, R. F. 2010. Discussion of "Decentralized capacity management and internal pricing". Review of Accounting Studies 15(3): 479-502.

Halperin, R. M. and B. Srinidhi. 1991. U. S. income tax transfer-pricing rules and resource allocation: The case of decentralized multinational firms. The Accounting Review (January): 141-157.

Harper, D. O. 1968. Project management as a control and planning tool in the decentralized company. Management Accounting (November): 29-34.

Harris, W. M. 1956. Data processing for decentralized management. N.A.C.A. Bulletin (July): 1323-1328.

Harvard Business Review. 1928. Case studies in business. Centralized purchasing. Harvard Business Review (April): 343-351.

Hass, J. E. 1968. Transfer pricing in a decentralized firm. Management Science (February): B310-B331.

Henderson, D. E. 1961. Centralized control of multiplant operation - Some benefits. N.A.A. Bulletin (September): 92-93.

Hoshower, L. B. and A. A. Verstraete. 1989. Controlling the cost of decentralized information systems. Management Accounting (June): 51-55.

Indjejikian, R. J. and M. Matĕjka. 2006. Organizational slack in decentralized firms: The role of business unit controllers. The Accounting Review (July): 849-872.

Jefferson, H. M. 1908. Centralized consumption of anthracite coal: Part I. Centralization of enterprise. Journal of Accountancy (January): 211-223.

Jefferson, H. M. 1908. Centralized consumption of anthracite coal: Part II. Centralization of power production. Journal of Accountancy (February): 288-299.

Journal of Accountancy. 2018. Line items: Final regs. govern partnership representatives under centralized audit regime; Guidance issued on new rules for deductible corporate compensation; New paid family and medical leave credit guidance. Journal of Accountancy (December): 67.

King, A. A., M. J. Lenox and A. Terlaak. 2005. The strategic use of decentralized institutions: Exploring certification with the ISO 14001 management standard. The Academy of Management Journal 48(6): 1091-1106.

Kramer, L. L. 1952. Construction accounting in a decentralized company. N.A.C.A. Bulletin (March): 818-829.

Lindsay, R. M. and T. Libby. 2007. Svenska Handelsbanken: Controlling a radically decentralized organization without budgets. Issues in Accounting Education (November): 625-640.

MacGillivray, A. 1946. Accounting in a decentralized organization. N.A.C.A. Bulletin (September 1): 3-13. (Volume 28, issue 1).

Malmi, T. 1997. Towards explaining activity-based costing failure: Accounting and control in a decentralized organization. Management Accounting Research (December): 459-480.

Mhamad, A., Y. Zainuddin and N. Alam. 2017. Does decentralized decision making increase company performance through its information technology infrastructure investment? International Journal of Accounting Information Systems (27): 1-15.

Michelman, P. 2017. The question every executive should ask: Gone are the days of centralized control of information and decision-making within organizations. With information now widely distributed among employees, Kaiser Permanente CEO Bernard J. Tyson says today's executives face a critical question: "How do I charge up the organization so that we're maximizing the intellect of all of our people?" MIT Sloan Management Review (Summer): 67-72.

Moberg, H. W. 1962. Principles of control for decentralized operations. N.A.A. Bulletin (July): 56.

Moore, L. J. and D. F. Scott Jr. 1971. Long-range planning and the decentralized firm. Management Accounting (November): 35-39.

Pegels, C. C. and L. Southwick, Jr. 1970. Profit planning and control for decentralized corporations. Decision Sciences 1(1-2): 100-112.

Pekgün, P., P. M. Griffin and P. Keskinocak. 2017. Centralized versus decentralized competition for price and lead-time sensitive demand. Decision Sciences 48(6): 1198-1227.

Philippakis, A. S. 1972. A simulation study of decentralized decision making. Decision Sciences 3(3): 59-73.

Phillips, T. E. and M. E. Droege. 1984. Maximizing cash in decentralized organizations. Management Accounting (August): 38-42.

Qin, F., U. S. Rao, H. Gurnani and R. Bollapragada. 2014. Role of random capacity risk and the retailer in decentralized supply chains with competing suppliers. Decision Sciences 45(2): 255-279.

Reichmann, S. and A. Rohlfing-Batian. 2014. Decentralized task assignment and centralized contracting: On the optimal allocation of authority. Journal of Management Accounting Research 26(1): 33-35.

Robinson, M. A. 1991. Decentralize and outsource: Dial's approach to MIS improvement. Management Accounting (September): 27-31.

Rubenstein, A. H. 1964. Organizational factors affecting research and development decision-making in large decentralized companies. Management Science (July): 618-633.

Schöndube-Pirchegger, B. and G. Voigt. 2017. Inventory-related compensation in decentralized organizations. Decision Sciences 48(6): 1132-1163.

Schreiber, S. P. 2017. Federal court strikes down PTIN fees, upholds PTINs; IRS reissues centralized partnership audit rules; CPAs urge postponement; IRS provides simplified method for late portability elections. Journal of Accountancy (September): 62-65. (IRS Preparer tax identification numbers).

Schreiber, S. P. 2018. Final rules govern election out of centralized partnership audits. Journal of Accountancy (March): 70-71.

Shao, J., H. Krishnan and S. T. McCormick. 2014. Price incentives and coordination in a two-product decentralized supply chain. Decision Sciences 45(3): 507-533.

Shaub, H. J. 1978. Transfer pricing in a decentralized organization. Management Accounting (April): 33-36, 42.

Shubik, M. 1962. Incentives, decentralized control, the assignment of joint costs and internal pricing. Management Science (April): 325-343.

Slager, R. 1960. A procedure for the centralized gathering and processing of labor data. N.A.A. Bulletin (October): 23-34.

Stone, W. E. 1960. Is your management really decentralized? N.A.A. Bulletin (April): 90-93.

Villers, R. 1954. Control and freedom in a decentralized company. Harvard Business Review (March-April): 89-96.

Vosburgh, W. W. and D. Hyman. 1973. Advocacy and bureaucracy: The life and times of a decentralized citizen's advocacy program. Administrative Science Quarterly 18(4): 433-448.

Whinston, A. 1962. Price guides in decentralized organizations. New Perspectives in Organizational Research, edited by W. Cooper, H. Leavitt and M. Shelly. New York: John Wiley: 405-448.

Wolfe, F. B. 1922. Distribution of operating costs of centralized power plants at low capacity. National Association of Cost Accountants Official Publications (May 15): 3-8.

Wortman, M. S. Jr. and G. D. Meyer. 1969. The impact of centralized personnel functions in state governments. The Academy of Management Journal 12(1): 21-31.

Yost, J. A. 1990. Intra-firm resource allocation and transfer pricing under asymmetric information: A principal-agent analysis of decentralized decision-making in a multi-division firm. Journal of Management Accounting Research (2): 134-139.

Zhao, H., V. Deshpande and J. K. Ryan. 2005. Inventory sharing and rationing in decentralized dealer networks. Management Science (April): 531-547.