Accounting in detail: Accounting for individual performance

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 565-584

  Townley, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 0030268430     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cpac.1996.0058     Document Type: Article

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