Strategic choices, environmental uncertainty and SBU performance: A note on the intervening role of management accounting systems

Accounting and Business Research

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 268-276

  Chong, Vincent K ^a   Chong, Kar Ming ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0011966420     PISSN: 00014788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00014788.1997.9729553     Document Type: Article

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