Beyond the budgetary control system: Towards a two-tiered process of management control

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 203-230

  Marginson, David E W ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Management control; cybernetic paradigm; organizational behaviour; contingency theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001689118     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mare.1998.0104     Document Type: Article

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