Effect of perceived conflict among multiple performance goals and goal difficulty on task performance

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 221-242

  Cheng, Mandy M ^a   Luckett, Peter F ^a   Mahama, Habib ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Goal conflict; Goal difficulty; Multiple goals; Performance measurement systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250162909     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2007.00215.x     Document Type: Article

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