Technological and organizational influences on the adoption of activity-based costing in Australia

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 329-356

  Brown, David A ^a   Booth, Peter ^a   Giacobbe, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ABC; Adoption; Innovation diffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744952679     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629x.2004.00118.x     Document Type: Article

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