Parenting styles and value creation: A management control approach

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 89-112

  Nilsson, Fredrik ^a  

^a Deloitte Consulting   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Business strategy; Corporate strategy; Management control systems; Parenting style; Strategic control systems; Value creation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042728287     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mare.1999.0118     Document Type: Article

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