Performance measurement and the use of league tables: Some experimental evidence of dysfunctional consequences

Accounting and Business Research

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 275-286

  Keasey, Kevin ^a   Moon, Philip ^b   Duxbury, Darren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

League tables; Performance measurement; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011107185     PISSN: 00014788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2000.9728945     Document Type: Article

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