The impact of the strategy maps on balanced scorecard performance

International Journal of Business Performance Management

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-36

  Lucianetti, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Balanced scorecard; BSC; BSC expected benefits; business performance management; Italy; organisation competitiveness; organisational performance; strategy maps; survey data

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957994770     PISSN: 13684892     EISSN: 17415039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPM.2010.036040     Document Type: Article

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