Corporate financial management: Time to change the "cost of capital" paradigm?

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 617-638

  Dempsey, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0030525198     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cpac.1996.0067     Document Type: Article

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