IMPLEMENTING THE BALANCED SCORECARD: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TWO SPANISH CITY COUNCILS – AN INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Financial Accountability and Management

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 363-384

  Kasperskaya, Yulia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Balanced Scorecard; Institutional Theory; local government

Indexed keywords

EID: 66149160895     PISSN: 02674424     EISSN: 14680408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0408.2008.00458.x     Document Type: Article

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