Excerpt from Managerial Monitoring of a Single Data Stream
The next section of this paper outlines a general framework for describing the monitoring function of management. Monitoring is characterized as a decision of whether or not to intervene in a situation. The decision is made by comparing the subjective probability that the situation is in need of intervention, determined from the monitored data and personal judgement, with a threshold probability determined from the relative costs and benefits of intervening. In subsequent sections, normative cost investigation models, which prescribe the determination of the subjective probability and the threshold probability, are reviewed with an aim toward selecting from them that which is descriptive of managerial monitoring behavior. Unfortunately, not all of the theory is descriptively valid.
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