Implementing budgetary control in the performing arts: Games in the organizational theatre

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 405-438

  Christiansen, John K ^a   Skærbæk, Peter ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Budget; Game; Implementation; Management accounting; Management control; Performing arts; Power; Public sector

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031537278     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mare.1997.0045     Document Type: Article

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