Balancing dilemmas of the balanced scorecard

Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 842-857

  Johanson, Ulf ^a   Skoog, Matti ^a   Backlund, Andreas ^a   Almqvist, Roland ^a  

^a MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Balanced scorecard; Control

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750725151     PISSN: 09513574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09513570610709890     Document Type: Article

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