Barriers to customer-oriented management accounting in financial services

International Journal of Service Industry Management

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 269-286

  Nielsen, Jørn Flohr ^a   Bukh, Per Nikolaj D ^a   Mols, Niels Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Customer orientation; Financial services; Management accounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034369599     PISSN: 09564233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09564230010340779     Document Type: Article

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