Overcoming the barriers during implementation and use of the balanced scorecard by multinational companies in Brazil

Latin American Business Review

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 39-62

  Kaufmann, Lutz ^a   Becker, Alexander ^a  

^a WHU OTTO BEISHEIM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Balanced scorecard (BSC); Brazil; Emerging countries; Multinational companies (MNCS); Performance measurement; Strategy implementation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746580658     PISSN: 10978526     EISSN: 15286932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J140v06n03_02     Document Type: Article

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