Performing risk and the project: Risk maps as mediating instruments

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 156-174

  Jordan, Silvia ^a   Jørgensen, Lene ^b   Mitterhofer, Hermann ^c  

^a INNSBRUCK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Austria)

^b WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Enterprise risk management; Inter organizational control; Mediating instruments; Risk map; Risk representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878979183     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2013.04.009     Document Type: Article

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