Why do employees take more initiatives to improve their performance after co-developing performance measures? A field study

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 120-141

  Groen, Bianca A C ^a   Wouters, Marc J F ^a,b   Wilderom, Celeste P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Employee participation; Operations management; Performance measurement; Theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861481561     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2012.01.001     Document Type: Article

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