Profit comparisons, market prices and managers' judgments about negotiated transfer prices

Accounting Review

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 217-229

  Luft, Joan L ^a   Libby, Robert ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bilateral bargaining; Fairness; Transfer pricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031116854     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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