From welfare state to the civil society: The constitutive use of accounting in the reform of the NZ public sector

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 223-246

  Lawrence, Stewart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

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EID: 0033114361     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cpac.1998.0274     Document Type: Article

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