Management control systems dilemma: Reconciling sustainability with information overload

Advances in Management Accounting

Volumn 20, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-28

  Neumann, Bruce R ^a   Cauvin, Eric ^b   Roberts, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b University Aix Marseille   (France)

Author keywords

Financial measures bias; Information overload; Management control systems; Performance evaluation; Performance measurement; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890064489     PISSN: 14747871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S1474-7871(2012)0000020007     Document Type: Review

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