Zero-Base Budgeting: Prospects for Developing a Semi-Confusing Budgeting Information System
Publication Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
1981
Abstract
This paper argues for the recognition that zero-base budgeting (ZBB) is a destabilizing which may co-exist in the future with traditional budgeting systems (TBS) to form a semi-confusing information system. The stabilizing and destabilizing features of a semi-confusing information system are explored first. The characteristics of ZBB as a formal budgeting process are examined next to provide a comparative profile of its destabilizing features in a changing environment. Analytically, ZBB characteristics match with the destabilizing properties of a semi-confusing information system and this insight has substantial implications for the future use of ZBB.
Discipline
Accounting | Corporate Finance
Research Areas
Accounting Information System
Publication
Accounting, Organizations and Society
Volume
6
Issue
2
First Page
153
Last Page
164
ISSN
0361-3682
Identifier
10.1016/0361-3682(81)90005-2
Publisher
Elsevier
Citation
Williams, John Joseph.
Zero-Base Budgeting: Prospects for Developing a Semi-Confusing Budgeting Information System. (1981). Accounting, Organizations and Society. 6, (2), 153-164.
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