Performance measurement systems: Successes, failures and future – a review

Measuring Business Excellence

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 4-14

  Paranjape, Bhagyashree ^a   Rossiter, Margaret ^a   Pantano, Victor ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Balanced scorecard; International organizations; Performance measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747776443     PISSN: 13683047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13683040610685748     Document Type: Review

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