Customer-focused manufacturing strategy and the use of operations-based non-financial performance measures: A research note

Accounting, Organizations and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 557-572

  Perera, S ^a   Harrison, G ^a   Poole, M ^a  

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EID: 0031206462     PISSN: 03613682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-3682(96)00048-7     Document Type: Article

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