The impact of strategic-positioning information on auditor judgments about business-process performance

Auditing

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 71-88

  Ballou, Brian ^a   Earley, Christine E ^b   Rich, Jay S ^c  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit methods; Business risk; Complex systems thinking; Typicality effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 8744285513     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2004.23.2.71     Document Type: Article

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