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Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap

Jeremy Hope and Robin Fraser

(Harvard Business School Press, 2003)

The traditional annual budgeting process--characterized by fixed targets and performance incentives--is time consuming, overcentralized, and outdated. Worse, it often causes dysfunctional and ...

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