When is a balanced scorecard a balanced scorecard?

International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 688-708

  Soderberg, Marvin ^a   Kalagnanam, Suresh ^b   Sheehan, Norman T ^b   Vaidyanathan, Ganesh ^b  

^a Alberta Union of Public Employees   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Balance scorecard; BSC taxonomy; Control systems; Performance measurement (quality)

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055031894     PISSN: 17410401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410401111167780     Document Type: Article

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