Strategic management accounting and sense-making in a multinational company

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-102

  Tillmann, Katja ^a   Goddard, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grounded theory; Sense making; Strategic management accounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 40249100109     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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