Leadership and control system design

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 2-16

  Abernethy, Margaret A ^a   Bouwens, Jan ^b   van Lent, Laurence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Communication; Control system use; Empowerment; Execution; Leadership style; Organization design

Indexed keywords

EID: 75749091761     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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