To adapt the tools of control to the context and to the actors in SMEs : the exploratory case of a dashboard purchase of a leader
This article aims to show that management control systems make sense to SME’s managers conditional to some adaptation and in some case, management control systems relatively close to those observed in big firms can be adapted to SMEs. To this end, a study has been driven in a SME of about fifty employees within the framework of a participating observation. Firstly, we propose to describe a « purchase » dashboard relatively elaborated, reactive, decentralized, linked with the strategy, showing how it is articulated with the others management tools of the organization. Then we attempt to identify organizational, environmental and individual characteristics allowing to understand the perceived achievement by the manager of the implementation of this management tool.