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THE CONTROLLERSHIP AS SUPPORT COMPANY STRATEGY: MULTIPLE CASE STUDY IN TRANSPORT COMPANIES

ABSTRACT

Purpose:

To identify the controllership practices which can support strategic decisions on transport companies.

Originality/gap/relevance/implications:

The paper presents a new approach to the relationship between controllership practices and strategic decisions. It contributes by filling gaps on the controllership functions, advancing in concepts about strategic decisions, and presents the commom practices of the segment.

Key methodological aspects:

The research is applied with a qualitative approach. It is a multiple case study with four cargo transportation companies in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre/RS. For data collection, an interview script was elaborated. To check the similarity between the firms, the Jaccard similarity index was used.

Summary of key results:

It was found that among the 27 controllership practices, 16 are used for at least one of the companies surveyed, while 11 are not used by any of the companies. Analyzing the use of strategic decisions listed in the literature, it is evident that 75.4% of strategic decisions are used by at least one of the enterprises, while 24,6% are not identified in any of the companies. There is similarity between the companies, the results indicate that 14,8% of practices are considered crucial or very important to 75% of the companies.

Key considerations/conclusions:

The results show that the controllership practices can provide support to the formulation of strategic decisions of the company. Regarding the analysis of the number of decisions which are related to each practice, the controllership practices most prominent was "operating budget", which is related to 60,5% of the 43 decisions.

KEYWORDS
Practices of controllership; Strategic decisions; Transportation company; Cargo transportation; Variable cost

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