The costs of activity-based management

Accounting, Organizations and Society

Volumn 27, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 99-120

  Armstrong, Peter ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0002128649     PISSN: 03613682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-3682(99)00031-8     Document Type: Article

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