For which purposes do managers use Balanced Scorecards?. An empirical study

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 239-251

  Wiersma, Eelke ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Balanced Scorecard; Management control; Multidimensional usage

Indexed keywords

EID: 71549121014     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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