Balancing the scorecard through academic accounting research: Opportunity lost?

Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 458-474

  Salterio, Steve ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accounting; Auditing; Balanced scorecard; Behavioural research; Decision making; Management accounting; Management control systems; Performance evaluation; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867808401     PISSN: 18325912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/18325911211273473     Document Type: Article

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