When the uncountable counts: An alternative to monitoring employee performance

Business Horizons

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 349-357

  Platts, K W ^a   Sobotka M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PEMBROKE COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Balanced Scorecard; Gas and electricity distribution; Performance management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953687264     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2010.02.006     Document Type: Article

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