The involvement of management accountants in operational process change results from field research

International Journal of Operations and Production Management

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1325-1338

  Johnston, Robert ^a   Brignall, Stan ^b   Fitzgerald, Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change; Management accounting; Operations management; Process management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036459714     PISSN: 01443577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01443570210452020     Document Type: Article

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