Reducing conflict in balanced scorecard evaluations

Accounting, Organizations and Society

Volumn 32, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 363-377

  Wong On Wing, Bernard ^a   Guo, Lan ^a   Li, Wei ^b   Yang, Dan ^c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

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EID: 33847058018     PISSN: 03613682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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