The impact of culture on the use of performance measurement information in the university setting

Management Decision

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 751-759

  Vakkuri, Jarmo ^a   Meklin, Pentti ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Organizational culture; Organizational performance; Performance measures; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986031700     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740310496260     Document Type: Article

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