Management accounting change in a subsidiary organisation

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 404-430

  Yazdifar, Hassan ^a   Zaman, Mahbub ^b   Tsamenyi, Mathew ^a   Askarany, Davood ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Management accounting; Multi institutional theory; Parent; Politics; Power; Subsidiary

Indexed keywords

EID: 40649123805     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2006.08.004     Document Type: Article

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