Contending legitimations: Performance measurement coupling and decoupling in two Finnish cities

Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 373-391

  Rautiainen, Antti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Accounting; Cities; Finland; Organizational analysis; Performance measures; Public sector organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952214674     PISSN: 09513574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09513571011034343     Document Type: Article

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