The flexible firm: Strategies for a subcontractor's management control

Accounting, Organizations and Society

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 31-55

  Mouritsen, Jan ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

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EID: 0001891163     PISSN: 03613682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0361-3682(97)00059-7     Document Type: Article

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