Goal characteristics, communication and reward systems, and managerial propensity to create budgetary slack

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 517-532

  Yuen, Desmond C Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Accounting procedures; Budgets; Hotel and catering industry; Macau

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992954999     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900410530529     Document Type: Article

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