Organizing the capital budgeting process in large firms

Management Decision

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 43-56

  Maccarrone, Paolo ^a  

^a Politechnico di Milano ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Capital budgeting; Contingency theory; Decentralization; Finance; Investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 12344302756     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251749610121489     Document Type: Article

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