An exploration of the espoused organizational cultures of public accounting firms

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 26-53

  Holmes, Scott ^a   Marsden, Stephen ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

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