A review of dashboards in performance management: Implications for design and research

International Journal of Accounting Information Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-59

  Yigitbasioglu, Ogan M ^a   Velcu, Oana ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dashboards; Display format; Graphs; Performance management; Performance measurement; Presentation format; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857035393     PISSN: 14670895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.accinf.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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