Opening the black box of management accounting information exchanges in buyer-supplier relationships

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 61-78

  Caglio, Ariela ^a   Ditillo, Angelo ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Buyer supplier relationships; Inter organisational management accounting; Open book accounting; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861478396     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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