Management control as a system or a package? Conceptual and empirical issues

Accounting, Organizations and Society

Volumn 38, Issue 6-7, 2013, Pages 407-419

  Grabner, Isabella ^a   Moers, Frank ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84888430536     PISSN: 03613682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2013.09.002     Document Type: Article

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