A control framework: Insights from evidence on lean accounting

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 301-323

  Kennedy, Frances A ^a   Widener, Sally K ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency theory; Control interdependencies; Lean accounting; Lean manufacturing; Management control; Performance measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 56849121272     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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