Controlling research in the Wroclaw academic community.
A thirty-year perspective (1990–2020) Cover Image

Badania nad controllingiem w ośrodku wrocławskim. Perspektywa trzydziestolecia 1990–2020
Controlling research in the Wroclaw academic community. A thirty-year perspective (1990–2020)

Author(s): Edward Nowak, Marta Nowak
Subject(s): Economy, National Economy, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Księgowych w Polsce
Keywords: controlling; research state-of-the-art; controlling theory; general controlling prob-lems; controlling tools

Summary/Abstract: Purpose: The paper's goal is to summarize thirty years of controlling research in the Wroclaw academic community.Methodology/approach: In the paper, content analysis and textual analysis of control-ling-related publications of researchers from Wroclaw are performed. The publications are analyzed in the dimensions of time, publication type, and scope.Findings: The study identifies four hundred and forty-nine publications on controlling. It recognizes six main research areas: general controlling problems, controlling tools, domain-specific controlling, informational support of controlling, controlling organization, and “soft” aspects. In the paper, the research areas with large research potential are identified: “soft” aspects of controlling, relations between controlling and corporate social responsibility, con-trolling in branches where it has not been applied before, information-related issues of con-trolling in the content of abundance of information, and using discoveries of modern scienc-es, such as neuroscience, in controlling research.Value: the paper contains the first in-depth and holistic analysis of publications of Wroclaw researchers concerning controlling.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 112
  • Page Range: 85-102
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish