Delivering the goods at TNT: The role of the performance measurement system

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 431-457

  Moon, Philip ^a   Fitzgerald, Lin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Corporate champion; Dimensions; Internal benchmarking; League tables; Rewards; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030525251     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mare.1996.0024     Document Type: Article

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