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Strategy, Management Control and Organizational Design: Empirical Illustrations from SCA Packaging

In: Strategy, Control and Competitive Advantage

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  • Katarzyna Cieslak

    (Uppsala University)

Abstract

As pointed out in the introductory chapter, how to create competitive advantage and improve organizational performance is a central question in the strategy field, and numerous perspectives have been applied in order to understand competitive advantage. This book proposes one explanation based on a contingent fit between strategies and management control systems (Nilsson and Rapp 2005), and the current chapter outlines organizational issues linked to the fit between a management control system and strategy at SCA Packaging (SCAP), a strong competitor on a paper-packaging market in Europe. At the time this chapter is being written, SCAP belongs to the SCA group, which was founded in Sweden in 1929. SCAP is ‘a leading European company in customer-specific packaging, with a focus on state-of-the art packaging design and local service close to customer facilities’ ( www.scapackaging.com ). SCAP emphasizes its innovation focus, and the company has received numerous awards in recognition of the innovative design of its products. While trying to foster innovative design in its products, SCAP also pays attention to production costs and to ensuring the sustainability of its operations. The company has been granted numerous sustainability and business ethics awards.

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  • Katarzyna Cieslak, 2014. "Strategy, Management Control and Organizational Design: Empirical Illustrations from SCA Packaging," Management for Professionals, in: Erik Jannesson & Fredrik Nilsson & Birger Rapp (ed.), Strategy, Control and Competitive Advantage, edition 127, chapter 6, pages 139-162, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-3-642-39134-7_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39134-7_6
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