The impact of firm characteristics on management accounting practices: A UK-based empirical analysis

British Accounting Review

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 2-27

  Abdel Kader, Magdy ^a   Luther, Robert ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AMT; Contingency theory; Customer power; Environmental uncertainty; Food industry; JIT; Management accounting; Product perishability; Survey; TQM

Indexed keywords

EID: 39949083756     PISSN: 08908389     EISSN: 10958347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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