A survey of the adoption and use of target costing in Dutch firms

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 293-305

  Dekker, Henri ^a   Smidt, Peter ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NYENRODE BUSINESS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cost management; Product development; Survey; Target costing

Indexed keywords

COSTS; PRODUCT DESIGN; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

COST MANAGEMENT;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0038176569     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5273(02)00450-4     Document Type: Article

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