Performance measurement adoption and business performance: An exploratory study in the shipping industry

Management Decision

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 139-159

  Otheitis, Nikolaos ^a   Kunc, Martin ^b  

^a Ionia Management SA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Company performance; Competitive advantage; Performance measurement systems; Shipping industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923356136     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MD-02-2014-0108     Document Type: Article

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