Sous les pavés la plage… ou les multiples fonctions du vocabulaire comptable: l'exemple de la performance

Annick Ancelin-Bourguignon

ACCRA, 1997, vol. 3, issue 1, 89-101

Abstract: For some years, management control has been using commonly the word performance, without defining precisely the meaning of this polysemous word. A further analysis of the metaphors associated with the word leads one to conclude that this lack of semantic precision has valuable social functions for everybody.

Keywords: performance; language; polysemy; metaphor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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