Management control systems and strategy change in buyouts

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 155-177

  Bruining, Hans ^a   Bonnet, Marcel ^a   Wright, Mike ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Management buy outs; Management control systems; Strategy change

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942696479     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2004.03.003     Document Type: Article

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