Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Doctoral training in economics and business management (Management) | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
All year long
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
"Advanced Topics in Management Control" is a course inserted in the Doctoral Program and is dedicated to students wishing to develop a doctoral research in the fields of financial or organizational management control, management accounting, control systems, internal audit, audit or operational risk management.
It stresses, in a scientific perspective and based notably on the contingency theory, on how to design a management control system that deals with the permanent interaction between human behaviour, management system within an organization and the different traditional tools in MCS (scorecards, budgets, performance monitoring systems).
The theme which is particularly investigated this year is "Adapting to risks and change in High Reliability Organizations : theory and practice".
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The specific ILOs that are accentuated by this course are linked, in addition to the global ILOs scheduled for the globlal doctoral programn, to the ability to prepare, to build and to write a scientific communication possibly accepted for a public presentation during an international scientific Congress in the fields of management control, management accounting, audit, control or strategy.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
- Management Accounting or Cost Accounting
- Management Control (Systems)
- Theory of Organizations
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The teaching activities are organised on an individual follow-up and include the following steps :
- Analysis of the recent scientific literature about the annual selected theme and synthesis in a "pro forma" state-of-the-art
- Formalisation and integration of a synthesis of the acquired knowledge into a "Mind Mapping" application
- Structure and preparation of an original scientific communication linked to the selected theme
- Writing and submission of this scientific communication to an international scientific congress
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Blended learning
Additional information:
The course is starting on Friday, November 10 2023 at 10.30.
Students wishing to participate in the course must necessarily send an e-mail with their motivation to :
Prof. D. Van Caillie
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Reference book : Merchant & Van der Stede (2011) : Management Control Systems - Performance measurement, evaluation and incentives, 3rd Edition, FT Prentice Hall
- State-of-the-art about the selected theme : 30 points - Synthesis based on a "Mind Map" configuration : 20 points - Proposal of a communication : 40 points - Decision of acceptance by an international Congress : 10 points
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Individual follow-up of each student, based on regular meetings through a remote session.
Contacts
Professeur Didier Van Caillie
CEPE
Rue Louvrex, 14 - Bureau 102 - 4000 Liège
Mail : D.VanCaillie@uliege.be