Escalation of Commitment among Internal Auditors

Auditing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages

  Brody, Richard G ^a   Kaplan, Steven E ^b  

^a CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Budgeting; Escalation; Internal auditors; Responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041115135     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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