The role of the management fashion arena in the cross-national diffusion of management concepts: The case of the balanced scorecard in the Scandinavian countries

Administrative Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 110-142

  Madsen, Dag Øivind ^a   Slåtten, Kåre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Actors; Circulation; Diffusion; Institutional duality; Management concepts; Management fashion arena; Management fashions; The Balanced Scorecard

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894207934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/admsci3030110     Document Type: Article

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