Strategy and activity based costing: A cross national study of process and outcome contingencies

International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 187-205

  Bhimani, Alnoor ^a   Gosselin, Maurice ^b   Ncube, Mthuli ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Activity based costing; Outcomes; Process; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845684492     PISSN: 17408008     EISSN: 17408016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAAPE.2005.007672     Document Type: Article

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