A case study of balanced scorecard implementation in a Malaysian company

Journal of Asia-Pacific Business

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 55-72

  Othman, Rozhan ^a   Ahmad Domil, Ahmad Khairy ^b   Senik, Zizah Che ^b   Abdullah, Nor Liza ^b   Hamzah, Noradiva ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Alignment; Balanced scorecard; Human relations norms; MBO; Performance measurement; Strategy map; Tableau De Bord

Indexed keywords

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; CORPORATE STRATEGY; CULTURE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 33646928435     PISSN: 10599231     EISSN: 15286940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J098v07n02_05     Document Type: Article

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