An investigation of the effect of Balanced Scorecard implementation of financial performance

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 135-153

  Davis, Stan ^a   Albright, Tom ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced Scorecard; Field study; Performance measurement systems; Quasi experimental design

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942689985     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2003.11.001     Document Type: Article

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