Managers, budgets and organisational change: unbundling some of the paradoxes

Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-61

  Marginson, David ^a   Ogden, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Budgets; Empowerment; Organisational change; RAPM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992992176     PISSN: 18325912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/18325910510635281     Document Type: Article

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