Economics and management of enterprises

Management control in the big companies: new approaches

Economic Annals-XXI

Economic Annals-ХХI: Volume 180, Issue 11-12, Pages: 130-137

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Minakova, I., & Nosachevsky, K. (2019). Management control in the big companies: new approaches. Economic Annals-XXI, 180(11-12), 130-137. doi: https://doi.org/10.21003/ea.V180-14

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Irina Minakova
PhD (Economics),
Professor,
Dean, Faculty of Public Administration and International Relations,
Southwest State University
94, 50 Let Oktyabrya Str., Kursk, 305040, Russia
irene19752000@mail.ru
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6838-7940

Konstantin Nosachevsky
PhD Student (Economics),
Department of Customs and World Economy,
Faculty of Public Administration and International Relations
Southwest State University
94, 50 Let Oktyabrya Str., Kursk, 305040, Russia
0707202@mail.ru
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5729-7912

Management control in the big companies: new approaches

Abstract. The authors systematized the problems of organizing and implementing management control in the modern big enterprises. The expediency of using blockchain technology in big companies was proved in terms of ensuring adaptive regulation of their functioning, avoiding inefficient operations of departments, optimization of employees’ responsibilities, opportunities to improve staff motivation.

A multi-block organisational model of management control at big enterprises was proposed, which is unlike to the existing ones allows quickly change the parameters in terms of the human resource management, as well as the level and type of tasks setting, assessment of tasks implementation, methods for calculating the components of motivation, and reporting in view of dynamically changing external environment.

The proposed blockchain technology was developed for the Joint Stock Company Russian Post, a natural monopolist in the Russian market with 90 branches and divisions, providing postal services all over the country.

The recommendations on the software implementation for the proposed model were developed. The software package of this model can be successfully integrated into existing and actively used in practice in some big enterprises information systems for monitoring the achievement of the organization’s development goals and resource costs (web services and task management software suites: Any.DO, Doit.im, Evernote, Habitica, Maxdone, Things, PrettyTasks, TickTick, Todoist, LeaderTask, Wunderlist, etc.).

Keywords: Management Control; Management Information System; Big Companies; Blockchain Technology; Management Systems Information Support; Management Software Suites; Russian Post

JEL Classification: M11; M12

Acknowledgements and Funding: The authors received no direct funding for this research.

Contribution: The authors contributed equally to this work.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21003/ea.V180-14

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Received 12.10.2019
Received in revised form 22.11.2019
Accepted 28.11.2019
Available online 30.12.2019

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