The development of principal-agent, contracting and accountability relationships in the public sector: Conceptual and cultural problems

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 259-284

  Broadbent, Jane ^a   Dietrich, Michael ^b   Laughlin, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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EID: 0030163646     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cpac.1996.0033     Document Type: Article

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