Reliance on accounting performance measures: Dead end or new beginning?

Accounting, Organizations and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 4-5, 2000, Pages 497-510

  Otley, David ^a   Fakiolas, Alexander ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0034179407     PISSN: 03613682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-3682(98)00007-5     Document Type: Article

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