Determinants of control system design in divisionalized firms

Accounting Review

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 545-570

  Abernethy, Margaret A ^a   Bouwens, Jan ^b   Van Lent, Laurence ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NYENRODE BUSINESS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Control system; Information asymmetry; Interdependencies; Organization design; Performance measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 3943072357     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2004.79.3.545     Document Type: Article

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