Managing budget emphasis through the explicit design of conditional budgetary slack

Accounting, Organizations and Society

Volumn 30, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 587-608

  Davila, Tony ^a   Wouters, Marc ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 23844435312     PISSN: 03613682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2004.07.002     Document Type: Article

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