UK health sector performance management: Conflict, crisis and unintended consequences

Accounting Forum

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 231-250

  Conrad, Lynne ^a   Guven Uslu, Pinar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Healthcare; Institutional theories; Performance management; Structuration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869088204     PISSN: 01559982     EISSN: 14676303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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