Structure, formality and the importance of financial and non-financial information in strategy development and implementation

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-31

  Bhimani, Alnoor ^a   Langfield Smith, Kim ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Financial information; Non financial information; Strategic management accounting; Strategy development; Strategy implementation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846861535     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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