Towards a contingency approach to performance measurement: An empirical study in Scottish SMEs

International Journal of Operations and Production Management

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 802-825

  Garengo, Patrizia ^a   Bititci, Umit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Management information systems; Organizational culture; Performance measurement (quality); Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447342714     PISSN: 01443577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01443570710763787     Document Type: Article

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