The impact of family control on the use of performance measures in strategic target setting and incentive compensation: A research note

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-46

  Speckbacher, Gerhard ^a   Wentges, Paul ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Family firms; Strategic performance measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856229736     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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