Integrating hotel environmental strategies with management control: A structuration approach

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 272-286

  Chung, Lai Hong ^a   Parker, Lee D ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Budgeting; Environmental strategy; Hotel; Management accounting; Management control; Performance measurement; Structuration

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PLANNING THEORY; SERVICE SECTOR; STRATEGIC APPROACH; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 43549089294     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.546     Document Type: Article

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