The influence of change agents' behavioral intention on the usage of the activity based costing/management system and firm performance: The perspective of unified theory of acceptance and use of technology

Advances in Accounting

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 314-324

  Lee, Chia Ling ^a   Yen, David C ^b   Peng, Kai Chun ^a   Wu, Hsu Che ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77957891920     PISSN: 08826110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adiac.2010.08.006     Document Type: Article

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