The effect of organizational life cycle stage on the use of activity-based costing

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 62-79

  Kallunki, Juha Pekka ^a   Silvola, Hanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Activity based costing system; Management accounting; Organizational life cycle

Indexed keywords

EID: 40249109956     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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