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Relevance Regained Bibliography

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

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Cotton, W. D. J. 1994. Relevance regained downunder. Management Accounting (May): 38-42.

De Geus, A. 1999. The living company. Harvard Business Review (March-April): 51-59. (Summary).

De Geus, A. 2002. The Living Company: Habits for Survival in a Turbulent Business Environment. Harvard Business School Press.

Drucker, P. F. 1963. Managing for business effectiveness. Harvard Business Review (May-June): 59-62.

Flamholtz, E. G. 1992. Relevance regained: Management accounting - Past, present and future. Advances in Management Accounting (1): 21-34. (Summary).

Hall, R. W., H. T. Johnson and P. B. B. Turney. 1990. Measuring Up: Charting Pathways to Excellence. Homewood, IL: Business One Irwin.

Hiromoto, T. 1991. Restoring the relevance of management accounting. Journal of Management Accounting Research (3): 1-15.

Jayson, S. 1992. Focus on people - Not cost. Management Accounting (September): 28-33. (Interview with Tom Johnson within Johnson's article on pp. 26-35).

Johnson, H. T. 1988. Activity based information: A blueprint for world class management accounting. Management Accounting (June): 23-30. (Summary).

Johnson, H. T. 1989. Managing costs: An outmoded philosophy. Manufacturing Engineering (May).

Johnson, H. T. 1989. Professors, customers, and value: bringing a global perspective to management accounting education. Proceedings of the Third Annual Management Accounting Symposium. Sarasota: American Accounting Association: 7-20. (Summary).

Johnson, H. T. 1990. Managing cost versus managing activities - Which strategy works? Financial Executive (January/February): 32-36.

Johnson, H. T. 1990. Beyond product costing: A challenge to cost management's conventional wisdom. Journal of Cost Management (Fall): 15-21. (Summary).

Johnson, H. T. 1992. Relevance Regained: From Top-Down Control to Bottom-up Empowerment. New York: The Free Press. (Summary).

Johnson, H. T. 1992. It's time to stop overselling activity-based concepts. Management Accounting (September): 26-35. (Summary).

Johnson, H. T. 1995. Management accounting in the 21st century. Journal of Cost Management (Fall): 15-20. (Summary).

Johnson, H. T. 1996. A shadow from the past haunts the future of management accounting. Journal of Cost Management (Winter): 4-5. (This is a letter to the editor).

Johnson, H. T. 1997. A different perspective on quality: Bringing management to life. Deming Electronic Network Keynote address. (DEN link).

Johnson, H. T. 1997. Accounting and the rise of remote-control management: Holding firm by losing touch. in Rondo Cameron and Leo F. Schnore, eds., Cities and Markets: Studies in the Organization of Human Space presented to Eric E. Lampard. 191-221. University Press of America.

Johnson, H. T. 2002. A former management accountant reflects on his journey through the world of cost management. Accounting History (May): 9-21.

Johnson, H. T. 2004. Confronting the tyranny of management by numbers: How business can deliver the results we care about most. Reflections: The Sol Journal of Knowledge, Learning, and Change 5(4): 51-61.

Johnson, H. T. 2006. Lean accounting: To become lean, shed accounting. Cost Management (January/February): 6-17. (Summary).

Johnson, H. T. 2006. Sustainability and "Lean Operations". Cost Management (March/April): 40-45. (Summary).

Johnson, H. T. 2010. How Toyota ran off the road - and how it can get back on track. Leverage Points Blog. Pegasus Communications (February 9).

Johnson, H. T. 2010. Toyota's current crisis: The price of focusing on growth not quality. The Systems Thinker (February): 2-6.

Johnson, H. T. 2012. A global system growing itself to death - and what we can do about it. The Systems Thinker (May): 2-6.

Johnson, H. T. 2014. Accounting, accountability, and misplaced concreteness. Process Studies. (Fall/Winter): 47-60.

Johnson, H. T. and A. Broms. 2000. Profit Beyond Measure: Extraordinary Results through Attention to Work and People. New York: The Free Press. (Summary and additional Graphics and Notes).

Luft, J. L. 1997. Long-term change in management accounting: Perspectives from historical research. Journal of Management Accounting Research (9): 163-197. (Summary).

Martin, J. R. Not dated. Relevance Lost in a question and answer format. Management And Accounting Web. RelLost Short Questions and  Relevance Lost Long Ques

Roehm, H. A. and J. R. Castellano. 1999. The danger of relying on accounting numbers alone. Management Accounting Quarterly (Fall): 4-9. (Summary).

Soloway, L. J. 1993. Book review. Relevance Regained: From Top-Down Control to Bottom-UP Empowerment. Journal of Cost Management (Summer): 65-71.

Stivers, B. P., T. J. Covin, N. G. Hall and S. W. Smalt. 1998. How nonfinancial performance measures are used. Management Accounting (February): 44, 46-49. (Summary).